Playwriting, Like Begging In India, Is An

I Have Had The Irreplaceable Opportunity Of Learning My Profession With The Proper Tools, The Most Important Of Which Is Not A Pencil Or A Typewriter, But The Necessary Time To Think Before Using Them.

A Play For Me Never Really Takes On An Aspect Of Reality Until It Has Left The Dryair Of The Study And Begins To Sniff The Musty Breezes Of A Bare Stage.

One Of The Grave Dangers Inherent In The Various Stages Of Any Theatrical Career-whether It Be Budding, Quiescent Or Diminishing-is The Advice Of Friends.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty — Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With — For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind, Not Of Scene Or Of Routine. To Be Able To Break Out Of Its Dark Brown Sameness.

Charity In The Theatre Usually Begins And Ends With People Who Have A Play Opening The Week Following One's Own. Their Unlikely Benevolence Is Not So Much A Purity Of Heart As The Knowledge That They Face A Firing Line With Rifles Aimed In Exactly The Same Direction.