Affected Quote by John Guare

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

— John Guare

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

— Sam Shepard

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

— Mae West

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

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

— Matthew Bourne

There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about…

— August Wilson

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

— Ishmael Reed

I never wanted to be a playwright.

— Zoe Kazan

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also…

— David Henry Hwang

I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to…

— Hilton Als

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire