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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

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"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."


"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."


"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."


"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
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