Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

A play is a passion.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

I'm a drama guy.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

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 went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

Thank God for the theater.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

You have to be crazy to do theater.

I would like to write a play.