American Quote by Stephen Karam

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

— Jarvis Cocker

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone…

— Tony Kushner

I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's…

— David Means

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

— Derek Raymond

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most…

— Brooks Atkinson

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

— Richard Russo

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in…

— Matthew Desmond

“The end of something, that specific mid-century American upper-middle-class WASP East Coast thing, the mercantile remnant of the Puritans, the ruling class tossed up…

— Henry Bromell

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

— Colman Domingo

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it…

— Martin Amis

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

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find…

— Christopher Durang