The Art Of Fiction Is Freedom Of

Literature Is An Instrument Of A Culture, Not A Summary Of It.

To Listen Acutely Is To Be Powerless, Even If You Sit On A Throne.

The Power Of Language, It Seems To Me, Is The Only Kind Of Power A Writer Is Entitled To.

I Was So Mad At My Agent. I Had Polished And Polished And Polished [the Play], And He Referred To It As A Draft. I Wrote Him A Bitter Letter: How Can You Call This A Draft? I Don't Do Drafts! By Now I've Done 18, And Its Turning, In The Rehearsal Room, Into A 19th.

In Real Life Wishing, Divorced From Willing, Is Sterile And Begets Nothing.