Playwrights Quoted in The Archive
& 100 Quotes on Craft

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'The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.'

-- Graham Greene

1. Andrew Bergman
2. Ross Hunter
3. Richard Vetere
4. Doug Wright
5. Frumi Cohen
6. Dan Ohlmeyer
7. Erika Ritter
8. Gordon Davidson
9. Arthur Laurents
10. Danny Rubin
11. Julie Halston
12. Wallace Collins
13. Frank Capra
14. Orson Welles
15. Jeanette Winterson
16. Darnell Martin
17. Elmore Leonard
18. Richard LaGravense
19. Barbara Turner
20. Scott Frank
21. Elizabeth Chandler
22. Robert Brustein
23. Benjamin Mordecai
24. Naomi Wallace
25. Karen Joy Fowler
26. Lisa Loomer
27. Tennessee Williams
28. Suzan-Lori Parks
29. Edward Albee
30. Richard Forman
31. Jesús Urzagasti
32. Richard Nelson
33. Peter Stone
34. David Henry Hwang
35. Wallace Shawn
36. Carrie Mae Weems
37. Robert Alexander
38. Caryl Chuchill
39. Silvia Gonzalez S.
40. Simon McBurney
41. Dennis Potter
42. Ifa Bayeza
43. Jim Grimsley
44. Ernest Joselevitz
45. Shabaka
46. Alberto Giacometti
47. Sam Shepard
48. Howard Gordon
49. Doug McGrath
50. John Markus
51. Matt Williams
52. Pam Long
53. Bernardo Bertolucci
54. Susan Minot
55. Mart Crowley
56. Peter Glenville
57. Lonne Elder
58. Michael Bay
59. Cynthia Ozick
60. Eduardo Machado
61. Rachel Feldbin Urist
62. James Schamus
63. Sönke Wortmann
64. Sam Fuller
65. James Toback
66. John Sayles
67. Tony Kushner
68. Marta Praeger
69. Sam Henry Kass
70. A.R. Gurney
71. Craig Lucas
72. Pearl Cleage
73. Nilo Cruz
74. Arthur Miller
75. Ed Zwick
76. Laurie Anderson
77. Will Dunne
78. Tom Noonan
79. David Aukin
80. Hal Hartley
81. David Newman
82. John Berger
83. Jack Valenti
84. Douglas McGrath
85. Beth Herst
86. Sonia Rykiel
87. Robert Wilson
88. Stanley Tucci
89. Robert Harling
90. Mike Leigh
91. Austin Pendelton
92. Michael Weller
93. Diane English
94. Mario Vargas Llosa
95. Wole Soyinka
96. Wendy Wasserstein
97. Christopher Durang
98. Agnieszka Holland
99. Carole Rothman
100. David Hare
101. Claude Chabrol
102. José Rivera
103. Rita Dove
104. Marcus Stern
105. Alison Carey
106. Steven Leigh Morris
107. Lanford Wilson
108. Roberta Levitow
109. Edward Zwick
110. August Wilson
111. Luis Alfaro
112. Edit Villarreal
113. Noah Wyle
114. Caridad Svich
115. Oliver Stone
116. Mark Kemble
117. Sebastian Barry
118. Susanna Moore
119. Irwin Winkler
120. OyamO
121. Paula Vogel
122. Mac Wellman
123. Joe Roth
124. James L. Brooks
125. Emma-Kate Croghan
126. Linda Griffiths
127. Deborah Warner
128. Russell Vandenbroucke
129. Steven Dietz
130. Bruno Barreto
131. Claude Beri
132. Jack Bradley
133. Constance Congdon
134. Tom Donaghy
135. Dominic Dromgoole
136. Mary Hanes
137. Paul Schmidt
138. Terrence McNally
139. Sandra Tsing-Loh
140. Tina Howe
141. John Patrick Shanley
142. Alfred Uhry
143. Bruce Beresford
144. Danièle Dubroux
145. Moisés Kaufman
146. Robert Whitehead
147. Thomas Rothman
148. Frederick Zollo
149. Anonymous Hollywood Executive
150. Jonathan Weisgal
151. Cédrick Klapisch
152. Nathaniel Graham Nesmith
153. Kia Corthron
154. Peter Hedges
155. David Rabe
156. David Ives
157. Joel Coen
158. Jane Anderson
159. Shane Black
160. Martin Sherman
161. Chuck Close
162. Larry Gelbart
163. Brigitte Roüan
164. Neil LaBute
165. Alan Ayckbourn
166. Alexander H. Cohen
167. Jonathan Reynolds
168. Rocco Landesman
169. Takeshi Kitano
170. Gerald DiPego
171. Wendy McLeod
172. Martin McDonagh
173. Mark Ravenhill
174. Martin Scorsese
175. Alex van Warmerdam
176. David E. Kelley
177. Nicky Silver
178. David Wright & 34 New Dramatists' playwrights
179. Conor McPherson
180. Charles Smith
181. Andy Wolk
182. José Rivera
183. Richard Greenberg
184. Robert O'Hara
185. Marleen Gorris
186. Neena Beber
187. Y York
188. Julie Jensen
189. Chay Yew
190. Wendy MacLeod
191. Mary Zimmerman
192. Dana Singer
193. Marlane Meyer
194. Robert Towne
195. Christine Vachon
196. John Sloss
197. Christopher Lloyd
198. Jeff Daniels
199. George Kirgo
200. Buzz McLaughlin
201. Saul Turteltaub
202. Richard LaGravenese
203. Gregory Boyd
204. John Henry Redwood
205. Warren Leight
206. Athol Fugard
207. Kathryn O'Sullivan
208. John Robin Baitz
209. John Murrell
210. Rob Reiner
211. Marc Norman
212. Stephen Sommers
213. Joe Orton
214. Melanie Marnich
215. Philip Kan Gotanda
216. Ellen McLaughlin
217. Paul Rudnick
218. David Marshall Grant
219. Hanif Kureishi
220. Amos Oz
221. Jean-Claude Carrière
222. David Hare
223. A. S. Byatt
224. John Guare
225. Diana Son
226. Frederic Raphael
227. Don Hewitt
228. Tom Murphy
229. Mark Urman
230. Robert L. Wehling
231. John Guare
232. David Hare
233. Anthony Minghella
234. Spalding Gray
235. Edna O'Brien
236. Alan Ayckbourn
237. Ernest Chambers
238. William Boyd
239. John Irving
240. Michael Mann
241. Kim Morrissey
242. John Pielmeier
243. Horton Foote
244. Jeffrey Sweet
245. Caridad Svich
246. Paul Schrader
247. Malcolm D. Lee
248. Charles Fuller
249. Margaret Edson
250. Michael Frayn
251. Joe Pichirallo
252. Marcus Hu
253. Robert Redford
254. Douglas Carter Beane
255. Israel Horovitz
256. Alan Bennett
257. David Auburn
258. Michael Frayn
259. Suzan Lori-Parks
260. Joe Keenan
261. Sally Nemeth
262. James Houghton
263. Larry Strichman
264. Jason Shermon
265. Stephen Daldry
266. José Sanchis Sinisterra
267. Heather McDonald
268. William Goldman
269. Laurent Cantet
270. Ralph Sevush
271. Aljean Harmetz
272. Mike Rich
273. Anne Carey
274. Donald Margulies
275. William Missouri Downs
276. David Lindsay-Abaire
277. Kenneth Lonergan
278. James Houghton
279. Gary Garrison
280. Kathleen Tolan
281. Arthur Kopit
282. Francis Ford Coppola
283. Steven Soderbergh
284. John Malkovich
285. Julie Jensen
286. Crystal Skillman
287. Charles Busch