Character Quote by 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

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

— Edward Albee

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

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

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

— Martin Landau

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman

I'm not a playwright.

— Bob Dylan

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

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

— Tanya Saracho

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours of telly.

— Adrian Lester