Foolishness Quote by Edward Albee

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor…

— Anonymous

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

— Dario Argento

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience…

— Terence Rattigan

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the…

— Jane Yolen

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo