Business Quote by J. B. Priestley

I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had…

— Lillian Hellman

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond…

— Anthony Hopkins

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

— Steven Michael Quezada

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming…

— Tony Kushner

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but…

— Wole Soyinka

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would…

— Wallace Shawn

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and…

— Beth Henley

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

— Sam Shepard

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years…

— W. S. Gilbert

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner