I Never Had A Lot Of Ideas.

I Was 22 And Stopped Writing Plays, And I Didn't Start Again Until I Was 25. I Was Writing Badly. In College, I Attempted To Write These More Conventional Plays, But The Theater I Loved Was Downtown Experimental Theater. I Didn't Feel Like I Could Do That Either. It Didn't Occur To Me To Do My Own Thing.

Yeah, I Have The Detail-obsessed, Controlling Personality Of A Novelist, But I Somehow Ended Up Writing Plays.

I'm Terrible At Speaking Extemporaneously About My Work - I Get Completely Tongue-tied And Consumed With Fear.

I Think Growing Up In A Small Town, The Kind Of People I Met In My Small Town, They Still Haunt Me. I Find Myself Writing About Them Over And Over Again.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.