Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

If You Intellectualize And Examine The Creative Process Too Carefully It Can Evaporate And Vanish. It's Not Only Terribly Difficult To Talk About, It's Also Dangerous.

A Playwright, Especially A Playwright Whose Work Deals Very Directly With An Audience, Perhaps He Should Pay Some Attention To The Nature Of The Audience Response - Not Necessarily To Learn Anything About His Craft, But As Often As Not Merely To Find Out About The Temper Of The Time, What Is Being Tolerated, What Is Being Permitted.

Your Source Material Is The People You Know, Not Those You Don't Know, But Every Character Is An Extension Of The Author's Own Personality.

There Are Lots Of Young Vital Playwrights Who Are Experimenting, And These Are The Plays That People Who Are Interested In The Theatre Should See. They Should Go Off Broadway. They Should Go To The Cafe Theatres And See The Experiments That Are Being Made.

Every Writer's Got To Pay Some Attention, I Suppose, To What His Critics Say Because Theirs Is A Reflection Of What The Audience Feels About His Work.