Playwright Quotes

I am an internationally produced playwright.

– Israel Horovitz

It’s very hard to be a playwright because it’s very competitive.

– Jesse Eisenberg

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

– Jose Saramago

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

– Beth Henley

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

– Gore Vidal

I’m an actor and a playwright, and I don’t earn much.

– Ellen McLaughlin

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

– Francis Ford Coppola

It’s an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

– Laura Wade

I didn’t have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

– Pearl Cleage

I’m not a playwright; I’m a writer who loves theater.

– Rodman Philbrick

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

– Sam Shepard

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

– Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I never wanted to be a playwright.

– Zoe Kazan

There’s a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

– Terry Teachout

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

– Timothy West