Flawed Quote by Stephen Sondheim

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way…

— Lily Rabe

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

— Anton Chekhov

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

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

Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out…

— Donald Miller

“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do it with…

— Tennessee Williams

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter,…

— Rachel Heffington

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 approach everything from the same perspective which is character and story, which then influence the musical style.

— Bear McCreary

When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the…

— Mike Bartlett