Acceptance Quote by Edward Albee

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that…

— 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

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also…

— Tony Kushner

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights…

— Peter Stone

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the…

— Edward Albee

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

— David Henry Hwang

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire