Theatre Quote by Terry Eagleton

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at…

— Baron Vaughn

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

— Julius Charles Hare

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

— Edward Albee

“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from…

— Jeffrey A. Kottler

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought,…

— Mark Rylance

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

— August Strindberg

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

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