Feels Quote by Wendy Wasserstein

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

— Lena Dunham

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

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

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

— Alan Alda

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

— Edward Albee

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee

When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the…

— Richard Greenberg

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

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 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 write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but…

— Wole Soyinka