About Quote by Richard Greenberg

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

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick…

— David Duchovny

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

I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a…

— Sam Shepard

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

— Donovan McNabb

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the…

— Anonymous

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Tony Kushner

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument…

— Susan Wiggs