The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.