Calling Quote by Paula Vogel

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

— T. S. Eliot

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

— Amanda Peet

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

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

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

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

— Moss Hart

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

— Peter Shaffer