Anything Quote by George Bernard Shaw

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

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

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide…

— Glenda Jackson

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

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty…

— David Mamet

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release…

— Robert Creeley

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

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice