Actor Quote by Neil Simon

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

— Israel Horovitz

I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always…

— Henry Rollins

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

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

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And,…

— David Rabe

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in…

— Beau Willimon

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

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