creativity Quotes

It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.