“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsI CanPlayTogetherActorsCan DoHoursPayCharityHorribleBunchTerrifiedBroadwayPlaywrightGet TogetherI Can Do It Author:Scott Raab
“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingKindI CanRealSometimesPlayHoursSeriousMindfulnessCreatingNoticingSuspensionFictional Worlds Author:Antonya Nelson
“If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.” PeopleIfsWritingPlayActorsInterestingRolesContradictionNuance Author:Paul Schrader
“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.” WantWritingHas BeensImportantPlayKidsGirlPlayerHabitDrawsBaseballBallsWant MeMaking LoveBaseball PlayerGood Baseball Author:Shel Silverstein
“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.” WritingPlayBigsStuffSoundAbilityRocksGuitarStudiosHeavyPostsLoudAggressivePunk Author:Tom DeLonge
“If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.” IfsShouldWritingBookPlayWriting A Book Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?” WritingLongHas BeensBookSometimesPlayFilmUsedForgetGenerationsTelevisionDramaRaisedScriptsForget ItLive Television Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays