Public Quote by George C. Wolfe

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

A public is a necessary fiction.

— Rowan Williams

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

— Donna McKechnie

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

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act,…

— Paul Muni

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion