Dna Quote by John Guare

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

— Matthew Bourne

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

— Andrea Martin

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

— Laila Robins

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

— Zawe Ashton

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

— William Monahan

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

— Mark Kurlansky

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

— Henry Louis Gates

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

I'm not a playwright.

— Bob Dylan