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I have no great faith in women's plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles. — George H. Boker

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov

Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. — Adam Rapp

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. — Ethel Merman

Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use. — Arthur Miller

Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence. — Francis M. Nevins Jr.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do. — Edward Albee

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better. — Peter Shaffer

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. — Katori Hall

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights. — Sebastian Stan

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. — Diane Paulus

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane

The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. — Mos Def

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? — Arthur Schnitzler

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights. — Eva Mendes

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West

Tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were — John Dickson

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life? — Arthur Schnitzler

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm