It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

I don’t think characters turn out the way you think they are going to turn out. They don’t always go your way. At least they don’t go my way. If I wanted to start writing about you, by page ten I probably wouldn’t be. I don’t think you start with a person. I think you start with the parts of many people. Drama has to do with conflict in people, with denials. But I don’t really know much about the process of creation and I don’t like talking about it.

Lillian Hellman, The Art of Theatre No. 1, Paris Review, Issue 33, Winter-Spring 1965