The Only Reason To Write

Oh If Life Were Made Of Moments Even Now And Then A Bad One--! But If Life Were Only Moments, Then You'd Never Know You Had One.

The Last Collaborator Is Your Audience ... When The Audience Comes In, It Changes The Temperature Of What You've Written. Things That Seem To Work Well -- Work In A Sense Of Carry The Story Forward And Be Integral To The Piece -- Suddenly Become A Little Less Relevant Or A Little Less Functional Or A Little Overlong Or A Little Overweight Or A Little Whatever. And So You Start Reshaping From An Audience.

I'm A Lazy Writer. My Idea Of Heaven Is Not Writing. On The Other Hand, I'm Obviously Compulsive About It.

The Tonys Ignored West Side Story. The Tonys Ignored Gypsy. It's A Kind Of Public Humiliation.

Over A Period Of Time It's Been Driven Home To Me That I'm Not Going To Be The Most Popular Writer In The World, So I'm Always Happy When Anything In Any Way Is Accepted.