“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.”
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
“If I were a woman. I need to be loved a great deal. My great problem is to be loved more, and that's why I write.”
“Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me.”
“I needed paper. I couldn’t think without writing my thoughts down.”
“My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.”