I'm not a playwright.

- Bob Dylan

I am an internationally produced playwright.

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Rodman Philbrick

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

- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

- Richard Greenberg

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

- Libba Bray

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

- Laura Wade

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

- Laura Wade

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

- John Patrick Shanley

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

- Jose Saramago

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

- Jesse Eisenberg

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

- Arthur Miller

Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.

- Gene Saks

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

- Gabrielle Zevin

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

- Gore Vidal

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

- George Jean Nathan

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

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Ellen McLaughlin

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

- Beth Henley

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

- Ann-Marie MacDonald