Authorship Quote by Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get…

— Mark Rylance

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to…

— John Patrick Shanley

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

— Adam Rapp

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think,…

— Peter Shaffer

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like…

— Jude Law

A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft.

— Ravi Subramanian

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because…

— Stephen King

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

— Jeff Daniels

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

— John Green