Finished Quote by Edward Albee

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my…

— Edward Albee

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but…

— Wole Soyinka

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my…

— Mandy Patinkin

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

— Israel Horovitz

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

— Rutina Wesley

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

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all…

— Neil Simon