Affect Quote by John Logan

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

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the…

— Tony Kushner

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time…

— Laura Linney

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort…

— David Ives

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

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a…

— Suzanne Collins

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support…

— Tony Kushner

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume…

— Lusia Strus

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living…

— Tony Kushner