Always Quote by Sam Shepard

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and…

— Annie Baker

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

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

— Tanya Saracho