Orson Scott Card Quotes

I never wanted to be a playwright.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

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 don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

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

I am an internationally produced playwright.

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

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

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

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

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.

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

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

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.

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.

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.