The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.
My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
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