Fundamentals Quote by Tony Kushner

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 an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

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

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

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

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

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley