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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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