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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.