Audience Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

— Niels Bohr

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

— Lee Adams

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently…

— Thornton Wilder

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be…

— Thornton Wilder

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

— Niels Bohr

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

— John Hurt

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

“We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization…

— Brian McDonald