Books Quote by Mike Bartlett

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as…

— Joe Mantello

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on…

— August Wilson

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is.…

— Tony Randall

My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I…

— Patrick Marber

I've actually been looking at plays, and I have read a bunch of stuff. I would love to do it. I have thought about…

— Jerzy Jeszke

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

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

— John Guare

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

— Tom Stoppard

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote…

— Zoe Kazan

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn