Holland Taylor Quotes

I never wanted to be a playwright.

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'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

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

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

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

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

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

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 people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

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 could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell.

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

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.'