Breakdown Quote by Terrence McNally

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

— Israel Horovitz

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

— Stephen Karam

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

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

— Bonnie McKee

I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Anton Chekhov