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I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual ...more

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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

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When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

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When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather t...more

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He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience wo...more

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If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And ...more

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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession...more

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WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a b...more

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a littl...more