Believe Quote by Tony Kushner

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

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

— Katori Hall

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

— Jonah Hill

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

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to…

— Sreenivasan

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

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

— William Monahan

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to…

— Beau Willimon

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways,…

— Eric Bogosian