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“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.”

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Author:Mel Gussow

“Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.”

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Book:Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley

Source: Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley

“In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.”

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Author:Elliott Colla

“Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.”

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Author:Jose Saramago