America Quote by Robert Penn Warren

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of…

— Tony Kushner

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Timothy West

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for…

— Sara Sheridan

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…

— Stephen Dunn

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

— Stephen Karam

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd…

— Emma Tennant

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden