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" Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. "

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" I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. "

" If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. "

" I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. "

" I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore. "

" I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant. "

" I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. "

" I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. "

" Writing is my primary way of expressing myself. "

" I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. "

" I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. "