I Never Had A Lot

I Feel Like There's An Obsession With Pace Right Now In Theater, With Things Being Very Fast And Very Witty And Very Loud, And I Think We're All So Freaked Out About Theater Keeping Audiences Interested Because Everybody's So Freaked Out About Theater Becoming Irrelevant.

Yeah, I Have The Detail-obsessed, Controlling Personality Of A Novelist, But I Somehow Ended Up Writing Plays.

If I Were Less Lazy, When My Play Was Published, I Would Go And Rewrite Everything For The Reader. But I Don't Do That. What People Are Reading Is Just Me Trying To Get The Actors And Directors To Do Something Or Think About Something.

I Think Growing Up In A Small Town, The Kind Of People I Met In My Small Town, They Still Haunt Me. I Find Myself Writing About Them Over And Over Again.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.