It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.