Dramatic Quote by Lillian Hellman

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

— Donna McKechnie

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the…

— Christopher Reeve

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

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel…

— Sarah Waters

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful…

— Anjelica Huston

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues,…

— Joanne Woodward

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing…

— Gore Vidal

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer