Bad Quote by Mike Bartlett

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

— Yolanda King

I did Shakespeare with teenagers in Harlesden, and it transformed them. I did it with prisoners in Brixton and it inspired them to write…

— Paterson Joseph

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

— Kenneth Tynan

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

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

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

— Ian Mckellen

I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle…

— Stephen Karam

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage