Age Quote by Jennifer Tipton

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

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

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment…

— Edward Albee

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s…

— Gore Vidal

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

— William Goldman

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

— Mark Kurlansky

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley