It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

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

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

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.