Crafts Quote by Terrence McNally

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

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary…

— Tennessee Williams

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do…

— Sam Shepard

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour…

— Nell Leyshon

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

— Aaron Sorkin

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

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

— Anton Chekhov

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another…

— Tracy Letts

“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you can see…

— Agatha Christie

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall