Attention Quote by John Mortimer

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the…

— Adam Rapp

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

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

— Edward Albee

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most…

— Michael Shannon

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter…

— Del Shores

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

— Edward Albee

The easiest thing sometimes is just playing. You don't have to worry about the plays, this and that, you just play.

— Austin Rivers

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in…

— Sam Shepard