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

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.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

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.