Famous quotes by Playwrights

"If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"There is no forgiveness in nature"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own"

Moss Hart, Playwright

"It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure"

Charles MacArthur, Playwright

"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place, and we should keep the light out of it"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"I am so far as I am aware, not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by, if you hold language to be the major element of theatre"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts"

Robert E. Sherwood, Playwright

"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion"

Zona Gale, Playwright

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience"

Moss Hart, Playwright

"The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"Amateurs hope, professionals work"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it"

James Pinckney Miller, Playwright

"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time"

John Hay Beith, Playwright

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11"

Lanford Wilson, Playwright

"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened"

Lanford Wilson, Playwright

"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"The humble and meek are thirsting for blood"

Joe Orton, Playwright

"Art is 110 percent sweat"

Robert Riskin, Playwright

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