Looking back Quote by Jez Butterworth

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

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

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

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

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

— Lena Dunham

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour…

— Nell Leyshon

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

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

— Lena Dunham

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

— Kenneth Tynan

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond…

— Sam Shepard

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in…

— Beau Willimon