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#playwright

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All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.


Joseph L. Mankiewicz


#hundred #playwrights #should #three #years

I have no great faith in women’s plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles.


George Henry Boker


#faith

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!


Mehmet Murat ildan


#courage

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

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.


Wilson Mizner


#drama #him #informing #meant #person

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.


David Ives


#always #any #because #bunch #casting

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.


Francis Ford Coppola


#because #everything #falling #had #i






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