#playwright

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. ↗

#broadway #by the time #failed #fled #had

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

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

#artists #camera #director #film #goes

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#goes #great #hollywood #horton #interior

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

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

— Sam Shepard

#living #make #playwright #scrape #you

I have no great faith in women’s plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles. ↗

— George Henry Boker

#faith

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! ↗