Mediums Quote by Judy Woodruff

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

— Judy Woodruff

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between…

— Anderson Cooper

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

— Adrian Dunbar

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix

“only after we have understood what means he had of saying anything can we understand what he meant to say, what he succeeded in…

— J.G.A. Pocock

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss