Assuming Quote by Tony Kushner

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Edward Albee

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

— Sam Shepard

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my…

— Mandy Patinkin

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

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'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own…

— J. B. Priestley

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to…

— John Patrick Shanley