A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

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.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

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