Bother Quote by Phylicia Rashad

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . .…

— George Bernard Shaw

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

— Joseph Heller

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

— Edward Albee

It's interesting playing something that the audience doesn't fully know.

— Guy Pearce

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle…

— Anton Chekhov

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

“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

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours of telly.

— Adrian Lester

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that…

— Edward Albee