Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

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