Audience Quote by Steven Moffat

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three…

— Al Pacino

People go to see Shakespeare plays over and over, not because the story is new, but because they want to see how a certain…

— Lorne Greene

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can…

— Irvine Welsh

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

— Marian Seldes

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be…

— Poonam Dhillon