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Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn"
Philip Massinger, Playwright
Philip Massinger
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"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard"
Philip Massinger, Playwright
Philip Massinger
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"Let us love temperately, things violent last not"
Philip Massinger, Playwright
Philip Massinger
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"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - Death brought them into harmony"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"Few women care to be laughed at, and men not at all, except for large sums of money"
Alan Ayckbourn, Playwright
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along"
August Wilson, Playwright
August Wilson
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