Critics Quote by Edward Albee

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

— Tom Stoppard

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't…

— Wallace Shawn

I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a…

— Gregory A. Boyd

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a…

— Sam Shepard

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

— Lena Dunham

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at…

— Horton Foote

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree…

— Nilo Cruz

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

— Anton Chekhov

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

— Edward Albee

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

— Gerry Mulligan