It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

When I write I still leave myself plenty of time around the meal hours; work three hours or so in the morning, two or three hours in the afternoon, and start again at 10 and work until 1 or 2 in the morning. Yes, I rewrite a lot—nine completed drafts on one play, four or five on the others. I’ve tried all the methods—making a very careful plan before starting is one. I didn’t stick to it. Then another time I just started writing, with no plan, simply with something to say, and let it run. Both plays kept me at work more than a year, so it doesn’t seem to matter how I go about it.

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