Blood Quote by T. S. Eliot

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

— Rod Serling

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

— Paula Vogel

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission. I've had…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

A lot of what I've had produced are plays, and I just don't want to do that. It's different than a movie, where you…

— Zoe Kazan

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard