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

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

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

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

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

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.