Quotes on 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.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.