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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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Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back ...more

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I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral...more

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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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GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, ...more

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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that ...more

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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for...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