Approach Quote by Edward Albee

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work…

— Edward Albee

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than…

— Edward Albee

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

— Anton Chekhov

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's…

— Edward Albee

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally