Morgan Freeman Quotes

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

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 draw plays every day.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

I loved the world of imagination.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.