I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.