A Play Is Fiction And Fiction Is

Good Writers Define Reality; Bad Ones Merely Restate It. A Good Writer Turns Fact Into Truth; A Bad Writer Will, More Often Than Not, Accomplish The Opposite.

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.

The Function Of Art Is To Bring People Into Greater Touch With Reality, And Yet Our Movie Houses And Family Rooms Are Jammed With People After As Much Reality-removal As They Can Get.

The Government Is Far More Interested In Taking, In Regulated Taking, Than In Promoting Spontaneous Generosity.

I Find Relatively Little Relationship Between The Work Of Art And The Immediate Critical Response It Gets.