Top Playwright Quotes
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
Beth Henley
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
John Lithgow
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh
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George P. Baker 
Sam Shepard 
John Lithgow 
Jose Saramago 
Liev Schreiber 
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Laura Linney 
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It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer 
64% of people like this quote
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
John Lithgow
56% of people like this quote
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer
56% of people like this quote
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney
54% of people like this quote
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh
54% of people like this quote
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
Lusia Strus
54% of people like this quote
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Mark Helprin
53% of people like this quote
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
George Jean Nathan
53% of people like this quote
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Don DeLilloJose SaramagoFrancis Ford CoppolaArthur MillerWilson MiznerOrson Scott CardVivien LeighGeorge Jean NathanAlex CoxJohn LithgowBeth HenleyPeter Shaffer
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