Areas Quote by Timothy West

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

— Hisham Matar

I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical…

— Dagmara Dominczyk

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks…

— Katy Mixon

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

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

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind…

— Twyla Tharp

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

— Christopher Eccleston

When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays…

— Eamonn Walker

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta