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playwright

Noun

Meaning

A maker or adapter of plays.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Wilson Mizner

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Terence Rattigan

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. James Thurber

A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. Edward Albee

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it. Noël Coward

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