Communication Quote by Tom Stoppard

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

— Tom Stoppard

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

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

— Anton Chekhov

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may…

— Eugene Ionesco

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

— Alan Bennett

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks…

— Iain Banks

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably…

— David Mamet