Condition Quote by Sam Shepard

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Edward Albee

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

— Lena Dunham

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 write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond…

— Sam Shepard

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

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