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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Robert Anderson

This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.

Richard Eder

She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition.

James Bundy

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Liev Schreiber

Being a playwright is lot of work. There are a lot more venues around here this year than years ago.

Brian Mcdermott

I really like words and I like to make them fun. Being an actor, teacher and a playwright, words are pretty important.

Gay Hammond

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

Laura Linney

Acting is a communal art. In the end, it not only requires the actors, director, technicians and a script and the playwright, but the audience. It's different with every performance. It's fresh and it's living. It's a great rush and very invigorating.

Brian Shea

His name has been on the list for a couple of years now. He's America's greatest living playwright and one of the playwrights of modern times.

Neil Baldwin

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

Lusia Strus

I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable.

John Garfield

He's the most successful American comedy playwright ever. And this is such a damned good funny play - and this time of year you need as many laughs as you can get.

James Brewer

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Brad Dourif

During the last months of the German Occupation in 1944, the young man who was to become France's most controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright.

Otto Friedrich

She contributed to the American theater in a lot of other ways than being a gifted playwright.

James Bundy

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

Our season is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Miller, and he said his favorite playwright was Ibsen.

Tom Ross

Any woman who is a playwright is already a feminist.

Sarah Ruhl

When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.

Robert Brustein

I do think it is a service to the playwright and that's a service to the theater indirectly.

Bruce Sevy