We Live In A World That Has

As An Audience Member, I Like The Sound Of Something That's Been Written - I Like It To Sound Written. And Then, Of Course, You Can't Do It Without The Musicians Who Can Play It.

We Live In A World That Has Walls, And Those Walls Have To Be Guarded By Men With Guns.

I Consider Plot A Necessary Intrusion On What I Really Want To Do, Which Is Write Snappy Dialogue. But When I'm Writing, The Way The Words Sound Is As Important To Me As What They Mean.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.

There Are Television Critics, Movie Critics, And Theater Critics Too Who I Like And Who I Follow And I Get Genuinely Bummed When They Don't Like Something That I've Written Because I Usually Agree With Them.