Timothy West
Actor
"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
Playwright quotes
Playwright
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Stella Adler
Actress, Director
"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
Arthur Miller
Playwright, Essayist
"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage."
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"A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves."
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"The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us."
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"I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist."
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