Donald Margulies Quote: "Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside ..."

Choose a background or upload your own photo, then download a shareable quote image.

Upload background image Your file stays in the browser; nothing is sent to the server.

Quote

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
Donald Margulies / Playwright
Empathy
Judging
Thinking
Copy Quote

Only Text Quote

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
⇛ Donald Margulies (Playwright)

Copy Quote Text

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.

Donald Margulies Playwright

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.

Donald Margulies Playwright

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through.

Donald Margulies Playwright

I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright.

Donald Margulies Playwright

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese Physician

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.