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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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