Quotes by Playwright A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller playwrightcountryway It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. Beth Henley playwrightenlighteningkind I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me. Bob Dylan playwright We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. C. S. Lewis playwrightstageproducers 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 playwrightadmirenumbers I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much. Ellen McLaughlin playwrightactors I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright. George M. Cohan playwrightplaywriting It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive. Jesse Eisenberg playwrighthard Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. John Guare playwrightdog I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA. John Guare playwrightdnatennessee I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. John Guare playwrightthinking I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. Jose Saramago playwrightpoeticnovelists It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. Laura Wade playwrightodd If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. Marsha Norman playwrightvisionwould-be 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 playwrighthysterical The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us. Oliver Stone playwrightgreek You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. Sam Shepard playwright But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed Sherrilyn Kenyon great-friendshipplaywright The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Stella Adler playwrightactorsideas The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. Timothy West elizabethanplaywrightclass12»
