Stephen Karam Quotes

I never wanted to be a playwright.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.

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.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.