Playwright Quote by Lynn Nottage Download Open image “I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.” — Lynn Nottage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Playwright Postmodern World
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from… — Jeffrey A. Kottler Copy Share Image
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together,… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
