Crafts Quote by Suzan-Lori Parks

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

— Alan Bennett

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if…

— Edward Albee

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue…

— Paula Vogel

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

— Anton Chekhov

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and…

— Tom Stoppard

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my…

— Edward Albee

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it…

— T. S. Eliot

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll…

— Donald Pleasence

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications…

— Edward Albee

It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And,…

— David Rabe

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may…

— Eugene Ionesco