Because Quote by John Patrick Shanley

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

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

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming…

— Tony Kushner

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

— Wole Soyinka

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to…

— Edward Bond

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

— Karen Traviss

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my…

— Mandy Patinkin