I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can also be a creepy guru/abusive therapist, too, so you have to be very careful. But it feels really important to me.

If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't do that. What people are reading is just me trying to get the actors and directors to do something or think about something.

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

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.