After Quote by Sarah Kane

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

— Aaron Sorkin

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every…

— Meredith Willson

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

— Edward Albee

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors…

— Lee Hall

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years…

— W. S. Gilbert