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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

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

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.