Playwright Quotes

“In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.”

“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.”

“I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.”

“Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”

“By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.”

“I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

“I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.”

“From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.”