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Playwriting Quotes & Sayings

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No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia. — Israel Shamir

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other. — Amanda Peet

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. — Moss Hart

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you? — Marty Rubin

That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing. — Jeff Bowen

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

Loving you, Kellan, is so easy, it's effortless."
His smile matched mine, then I frowned and sighed "Trusting you ... that's the hard part — S.C. Stephens

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS. — Tony Kushner

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays. — Gia Coppola

Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand. — Alan Moore

Making Life means making trouble — George Bernard Shaw

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. — T. S. Eliot

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process. — Paula Vogel

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies. — Zoe Kazan

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that. — Peter Gould

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! — William Wordsworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — Jez Butterworth

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B. — John Guare

Act One: Get your hero up a tree. Act Two: Throw rocks at him. Act Three: Get him down out of the tree. - attributed to George Abbott, on playwriting — Darrell Fusaro

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

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits. — Vincent H. O'Neil

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. — Robert Quine

Wantin' takes too much time ... I'd rather be working. — Larry McMurtry

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

We were both changing and growing in totally separate worlds. He had no firsthand knowledge of mine and I had no firsthand knowledge of his. — Chris Kyle

oft evil will shall evil mar. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil