By and large the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is after all a form of communication.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors and you choose...
In 1984 I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of...
You have to respect your audience. Without them you're essentially standing alone singing to yourself.
