Lynn Nottage Quotes

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

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 grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

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.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

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

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

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

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

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

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

I am an internationally produced playwright.

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

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.