Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.