Even Quote by Wallace Shawn

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

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 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 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

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

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

— Jeff Daniels

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English…

— Randall Park

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a…

— Noel Coward

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a…

— Suzanne Collins

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh