Beholden Quote by Oliver Stone

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created…

— Israel Horovitz

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room…

— August Wilson

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

— Stella Adler

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given…

— Alfred Lunt

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

— Sam Shepard

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

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

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also…

— Tony Kushner

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

— Eva Mendes

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

— Yasmina Reza