Every night Quote by Gena Rowlands

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove

“Well, boys will be bores. Tell me all about yourself, Mary. I’ve had a marvellous time over my novel. A man I know is…

— Angela Thirkell

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as…

— Tina Fey

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

“I think that every one whom you may ask how to write a play will reply, if he really can write one, that he…

— Alexandre Dumas Fils