“When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.”
Robert Brustein
“I know things that eventually fades away and dies but one thing is for sure...and will stays as what it is... And that's my love for you ... My dear, strong and pure love ,that no matter what happens and no matter when past... I'll still love you... In every matter... I have to take...”
guitarsdepressions
“I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. When the series starts, he--like a lot of liberal New Yorkers--are starting to realize something is very wrong in the gay community. My investigation into what becomes called AIDS is going to be a big part of the show.”
Bill Pullman
“[Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.] But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus: the lives of black people.”
Daniel Sullivan
“A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre”
Arthur Miller
“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable.”
John Garfield
