Able Quote by Tom Stoppard

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

— David Henry Hwang

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

— 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

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

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

— Edward Albee

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky.…

— Lewis Black

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into…

— Marianne Elliott

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr