A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.
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.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.