1.
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
Timothy West
2.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Stella Adler
3.
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Sam Shepard
4.
I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
George M. Cohan
5.
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
Beth Henley
6.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller
7.
I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.
Bob Dylan
8.
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade
9.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
C. S. Lewis
10.
I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.
John Guare
11.
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
Nilo Cruz
12.
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed
Sherrilyn Kenyon
13.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Jose Saramago
14.
It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.
Jesse Eisenberg
15.
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
Marsha Norman
16.
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
Oliver Stone
17.
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
Edward Albee
18.
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
John Guare
19.
I never wanted to be a playwright.
Zoe Kazan
20.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
Timothy West
22.
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.
John Guare