“Shakespeare’s philosophy, although expanding from play to play, is consistent throughout.”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“You write things in different states of mind. After a long day of writing, once you sleep on a story, that next morning isn’t the same as when you were engaged the previous night. You look at it later and realize it isn’t at all how you imagined it to be. So when you write a play ten years ago, and…”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.com
“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”— Vladimir Nabokov, theparisreview.org