Famous quotes by Playwrights

"To be able to write a play, a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool"

Robert E. Sherwood, Playwright

"When my parents separated, I was very grateful"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"Laughter can bring a new perspective"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"On that, other novels followed; but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better, but as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"It is right and natural that generous minds, while in the twenties, should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else"

August Wilson, Playwright

"He really is terribly heavy going, like running up hill in roller skates"

Alan Ayckbourn, Playwright

"On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female"

Moss Hart, Playwright

"I wrote my first play when I was eight"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution,' the old one"

Douglas Jerrold, Playwright

"My parents didn't really know one another"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'"

Moss Hart, Playwright

"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims"

Douglas Jerrold, Playwright

"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

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