Balance Quote by Sam Shepard

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably…

— David Mamet

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

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

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and…

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

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

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

— Edward Albee

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