Art Quote by Sheila Heti

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

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

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

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

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in…

— Beau Willimon

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

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I…

— Mary Gauthier

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would…

— Wallace Shawn

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee