It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

It is very difficult to explain that one goes through a play with elation, depression, hope. That is the exact order. * * * Hope sets in toward nightfall. That’s when you tell yourself that you’re going to be better the next time, so help you God. I am not special in this: I don’t believe there ever was a writer who wanted to be a decent writer who was satisfied with what he had done and who wasn’t willing to kid himself he’d be a Dostoyevesky the very next time.

“Of Lillian Hellman,” New York Times, April 20, 1941