Chaos Quote by Jean Kerr

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

— August Strindberg

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

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

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

— Cherry Jones

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I…

— Wallace Shawn

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for…

— Caridad Svich