Playwright quotes
| Author | # of quotes |
| Alan Ayckbourn | 3 |
| Alice Childress | 1 |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1 |
| Brendan Francis | 14 |
| Christopher Hampton | 7 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 3 |
| David Hare | 10 |
| Edward Bond | 1 |
| Ferenc Molnar | 1 |
| Francis Beaumont | 7 |
| Francoise Sagan | 10 |
| Garson Kanin | 4 |
| George Ade | 13 |
| Harvey Fierstein | 4 |
| Jack Gelber | 1 |
| James M. Barrie | 30 |
| Jean Anouilh | 27 |
| Jean Baptiste Etienne Vig | 1 |
| Joe Orton | 2 |
| John Osborne | 7 |
| John Webster | 5 |
| June Jordan | 4 |
| Karen Sunde | 1 |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 3 |
| Luigi Pirandello | 12 |
| Marcel Achard | 4 |
| Moliere | 14 |
| Moss Hart | 3 |
| Neil Simon | 8 |
| Noel Coward | 23 |
| Peter Shaffer | 2 |
| Plautus | 7 |
| Robert E Sherwood | 3 |
| Samuel Beckett | 30 |
| Sean O'Casey | 13 |
| Tristan Bernard | 2 |
| Ugo Betti | 3 |
| Wendy Wasserstein | 1 |
| William Somerset Maugham | 90 |