David Lindsay-Abaire

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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

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I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

From David Lindsay-Abaire