Attach Quote by Mandy Patinkin

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

— Lynn Nottage

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

— Sam Shepard

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

Really, my job is to understand and portray a script, and I've found that the more I practice on my own writing, the more…

— Mike Faist

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

— Jeff Daniels

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

— Miranda Lambert

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith