Donald Margulies Quotes

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.