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  • One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Theatre Quotes