Actor Quote by Stephen Karam

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it…

— Stephen Karam

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do…

— Sam Shepard

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

— Anton Chekhov

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

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

— Edward Albee

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

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

— Aaron Sorkin

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature…

— Dimitris Mita

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of…

— Tony Kushner