Could Quote by Tom Stoppard

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

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

— Edward Albee

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

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

I don't direct the plays of others.

— Israel Horovitz

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

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I…

— Mary Gauthier

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think,…

— Peter Shaffer

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things,…

— Ornette Coleman