Art Quote by John Lahr

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

— William Monahan

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience…

— Terence Rattigan

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good…

— William Monahan

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even…

— John Lahr

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live.…

— Stephen Sondheim

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and…

— Matt Damon

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to…

— Matt Bomer