Appreciate Quote by Sefi Atta

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally…

— David Henry Hwang

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I…

— Wallace Shawn

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who…

— Tony Harrison

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

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

— Jez Butterworth

At the age of 10 I wrote and starred in a play that I took around to local old people's homes.

— Carol Drinkwater