In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

I Never Used To Kill Characters, Because I Thought Killing Characters Was Cheating.

I Don't See The Theater As An Establishment. The National Theatre Has Always Seemed To Me A People's Theater. It Was Never Meant To Reinforce The Values Of The Government Of The Day, Nor Does It, Nor Should It.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

Writers Always Sound Insufferably Smug When They Sit Back And Assert That Their Job Is Only To Ask Questions And Not To Answer Them. But, In Good Part, It Is True. And Once You Become Committed To One Particular Answer, Your Freedom To Ask New Questions Is Seriously Impaired.