Believe Quote by Peter Shaffer

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Sam Shepard

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

— John Guare

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

— Holliday Grainger

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

— Bernard Cornwell

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field,…

— David Brock