Quotes About Creativity

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

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

Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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

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

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.

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