Aura Quote by Sam Shepard

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble -…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite…

— Rita Dove

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

— Truman Capote

In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the…

— Noel Coward

The last act crowns the play.

— John Ruskin

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

— John Guare

A play is a passion.

— Jerome Lawrence