Giving Quote by Ted Lange

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

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

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

— Edward Albee

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights…

— Peter Stone

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

— Tanya Saracho

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee