Born Quote by Edward Albee

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living…

— Tony Kushner

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

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not a playwright.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— 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

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

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

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the…

— Tony Kushner