Able Quote by Robert E. Sherwood

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with…

— Robert Anderson

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

You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business.…

— Morgan Freeman

“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

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

— Edward Albee

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can we look…

— Paul Barnes

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to…

— George Bernard Shaw