Greater Quote by Vivien Leigh

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one…

— Lajos Egri

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

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

— Edward Albee

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

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from…

— Jeffrey A. Kottler

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman