#playwright

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#about #against #any #areas #being

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

— Sam Shepard

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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#playwrighting #theater #tom-stoppard #writing #respect

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#also #because #being #believe #career

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. ↗

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

I'm not a playwright. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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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

#greater #interpreter #just #more #plays

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ↗

— Laura Linney

#ever #father #grew #i #manhattan

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. ↗