Burn Quote by Katori Hall

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

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

— Rob Urbinati

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another…

— Tracy Letts

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

— Christina Ricci

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,…

— Lanford Wilson

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

— Tanya Saracho

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's…

— Wallace Shawn

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

— Tom Stoppard

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin