Play Writing Quotes:

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Writing, Cutting, Play, Play Writing

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

- Terrence McNally

topic: Writing, Play, Nervous, Play Writing, Nervous Breakdown

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

- Jon Bon Jovi

source: "Bon Jovi talks charity, tour, daughter's struggle". Interview with Jihn Carucci, www.yahoo.com. December 3, 2012.

topic: Song, Writing, Artist, Play Writing, New Songs

What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play.

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Powerful, Writing, Play, Play Writing

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

- Nina Nesbitt

topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Play Writing