29 Quotes About Playwright

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.

Don Juan: I feel like God is punishing me and I don't know what for.Nurse 2: God's not punishing you. Life is Hell for all of us. You're not special.

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

I'm not a playwright.

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

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

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