You Have To Expect The Raps When

In Europe, A Writer Is Supposed To Improve Up Until He's About 75

In The Theater, Characters Have To Cut The Umbilical Cord From The Writer And Talk In Their Own Voices

I Reach My Readers Regardless Of What The Critics Have Written

Writing Is Like A Contact Sport, Like Football. Why Do Kids Play Football? They Can Get Hurt On Any Play, Can't They? Yet They Can't Wait Until Saturday Comes Around So They Can Play On The High School Team, Or The College Team, And Get Smashed Around. Writing Is Like That. You Can Get Hurt, But You Enjoy It!

Curiously, The United States Is Full Of Writers Who Have One Big Work In Their Life And That's All.