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I've always liked new writing.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.