I Think That's Foolishness On

Your Source Material Is The People You Know, Not Those You Don't Know, But Every Character Is An Extension Of The Author's Own Personality.

I'm Not Responsible For The Commercialization. The People Who Produce The Plays Are Responsible For It.

There Are Only Two Things To Write About: Life And Death.

There Are A Number Of Contemporary Playwrights Whom I Admire Enormously, But That's Not At All The Same Thing As Being Influenced.

Usually, The Way I Write Is To Sit Down At A Typewriter After That Year Or So Of What Passes For Thinking, And I Write A First Draft Quite Rapidly. Read It Over. Make A Few Pencil Corrections, Where I Think I've Got The Rhythms Wrong In The Speeches, For Example, And Then Retype The Whole Thing. And In The Retyping I Discover That Maybe One Or Two More Speeches Will Come In. One Or Two More Things Will Happen, But Not Much.