Book Quote by Grace Cavalieri

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

— Francine Pascal

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted…

— Candace Bushnell

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

— Neil Gaiman

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

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

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams