In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.