Art Quote by Simon McBurney

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

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

— Edward Albee

“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

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 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

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

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

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

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something…

— Robert E. Sherwood

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as…

— Arthur Miller

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange