Average Quote by Wallace Shawn

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

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year…

— Edward Albee

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

— Gerry Mulligan

When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice that there…

— Woody Allen

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than…

— Jim Grimsley

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 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

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

— Terrence McNally