Able Quote by Jake M. Johnson

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

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

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people…

— George Bernard Shaw

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

— Lena Dunham

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham