David Ives Quotes

David Ives — American Playwright

David Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for writing comic one-act plays, a reputation which resulted in the New York Times referring to him as the "maestro of the short form". Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays... (wikipedia)

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

David Ives Quotes

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