I'm Very Interested In Silence. And, More

I Never Had A Lot Of Ideas. I Always Have Exactly One That Is The Next Project; The Idea Of A Project Beyond That Project Is Ludicrous.

I Feel Like The Reason I Ended Up Becoming A Playwright Is Because I Never Choose The Right Word. As A Kid, My Fantasy Profession Was To Be A Novelist. But The Thing About Writing Prose - And Maybe Great Prose Writers Don't Feel This Way - But I Always Felt It Was About Choosing Words. I Was Always Like, "i Have To Choose The Perfect Word." And Then It Would Kill Me, And I Would Choose The Wrong Word Or I Would Choose Too Many Perfect Words - I Wrote Really Purple Prose.

I Think Growing Up In A Small Town, The Kind Of People I Met In My Small Town, They Still Haunt Me. I Find Myself Writing About Them Over And Over Again.

I Was Raised By A Single Psychologist Mother And We Spent Every Evening Sitting At The Kitchen Table And Dissecting Our Emotions And Speculating About The Inner Life Of Everyone We Knew.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.