Differences Quote by Steve Martin

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree…

— Nilo Cruz

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

— John Steinbeck

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to…

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Anton Chekhov

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove

My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I…

— Patrick Marber

One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you…

— Wendy Wasserstein

It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get…

— Richard McCabe

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I…

— Barbra Streisand

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

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

— Aaron Sorkin