Definition of Playwright

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Definition of Playwright
	Playwright A maker or adapter of plays. Related Definitions: Adapter, Maker, Of, Or

Playwright Quotations

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

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

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh

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

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
Don DeLillo

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

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
George Jean Nathan

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
Beth Henley

Playwright Translations

playwright in German is Dramatiker
playwright in Spanish is dramaturgo

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