When One Controls Form, One Doesn't Do

In The Two Or Three Or Four Months That It Takes Me To Write A Play, I Find That The Reality Of The Play Is A Great Deal More Alive For Me Than What Passes For Reality. I'm Infinitely More Involved In The Reality Of The Characters And Their Situation Than I Am In Everyday Life. The Involvement Is Terribly Intense.

I Don't Like Symbolism That Hits You Over The Head. A Symbol Should Not Be A Cymbal.

I Find Relatively Little Relationship Between The Work Of Art And The Immediate Critical Response It Gets.

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.

Any Definition Which Limits Us Is Deplorable.