Buttons Quote by John Guare

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my…

— Edward Albee

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody…

— Sam Shepard

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release…

— Robert Creeley

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

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience.…

— Tom Stoppard

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

— William Saroyan

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

— Andre Aciman