A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.