Function Quote by Edward Albee

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

— Sarah Kane

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

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