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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.