Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour"

Frank Wedekind, Playwright

"What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"If you accept your limitations, you go beyond them"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"Coffee in England is just toasted milk"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Sex - the poor man's polo"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature"

Cao Yu, Playwright

"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life"

Cao Yu, Playwright

"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair"

Robert Greene, Playwright

"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds"

Robert Greene, Playwright

"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip"

Robert Greene, Playwright

"Well, we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

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