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Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role. — Mason Cooley

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful. — Steven Michael Quezada

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright. — George M. Cohan

One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one. — Arnold Bennett

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced. — Rodman Philbrick

She has a beautiful heart that plays a euphonious symphony. She is the Zahir that touches your Soul. — Avijeet Das

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame. — Lisa Loomer

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, — Arthur Miller

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays. — Todd Haynes

Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in film. — Richard Toscan

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. — August Wilson

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays ... plays in which I had the starring part. — Francine Pascal

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 I wasn't able to control it. — Jake M. Johnson

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. — Christian McKay

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. — Patrick White

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate. — Trisha Sugarek

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central. — Richard Greenberg

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays. — Tom Stoppard

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing. — Jim Grimsley

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. — George Jean Nathan

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience. — Berlie Doherty

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. — Tom Stoppard

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. — Israel Horovitz

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. — Richard Foreman

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me. — Sam Shepard

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. — Judy Woodruff

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing. — Brendan Coyle

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts. — Jesse Eisenberg

Only assholes write plays about Nazis. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that. — Jazmine Sullivan

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations. — Adam Driver

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

The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. — Alice B. Toklas

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. — Jeff Daniels