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August Wilson On Playwriting
Adapted from: How to Write A Play Like August Wilson The New York Times, March 10, 1991 When I discovered the word breakfast, and I discovered that it was two words, I think then I decided I wanted to...
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Tom Stoppard On Playwriting
Adapted from: Is ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ a Shaggy Dog Story? By Angeline Goreau, The New York Times, August 9, 19982 “Hound” is timeless in the truly pejorative sense . . . incapable of change. It...
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Tom Stoppard On Playwriting II
Adapted from: The Real Tom Stoppard By Mel Gussow, The New York Times Magazine, May 1, 1981 I’m not really a very exploratory writer. I don’t pick up a pen and see how things will go. By the time I...
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Neil Simon On Playwriting II
Adapted from: The Craft of the Playwright The New York Times, May 26, 1985 I like writing women very much. I have shared the confidences of women more than I have of men. Men are more close-mouthed...
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Kurt Vonnegut On Playwriting
Adapted from: It May Not Make History, But That’s Not The Point By Kurt Vonnegut, The Los Angles Times, October 24, 2004 People ask me in these crazy times if I, like so many others, am writing a play...
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Theresa Rebeck On Playwriting
Adapted from: Playwright Theresa Rebeck likes to tell stories The Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2009 Here’s a plot: Two guys are waiting for somebody big and important to show up. That guy never shows...
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Arthur Miller On Playwriting
Adapted from Paris Review: The Art of Theater No. 2 Interviewed by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron In a short story, or any kind of prose, I still can’t escape the feeling of a certain arbitrary quality...
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Arthur Miller On Playwriting VIII
Adapted from Paris Review: The Art of Theater No. 2 Interviewed by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron (Senator Joseph) McCarthy (was) actually saying certain lines that I recall the witch-hunters saying in...
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Arthur Miller On Playwriting IX
Adapted from Paris Review: The Art of Theater No. 2 Interviewed by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron I’m in the process of collecting my short stories. But I tell myself, What am I doing. I should be doing...
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Arthur Miller On Playwriting X
Adapted from Paris Review: The Art of Theater No. 2 Interviewed by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron (B)efore I wrote my first successful play, I wrote . . . fourteen or fifteen other full-length plays and...
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