Antigone Quote by Seamus Heaney

I'm not a playwright.

— Bob Dylan

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

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

— Edward Albee

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

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

— Ethel Merman

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

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

— Elfriede Jelinek

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

“The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays—it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they…

— David Mamet

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner