It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

You are good in the boats not alone from knowledge, but because water is a part of you, you are easy on it, fear it, and like it in such equal parts that you work well in a boat without thinking about it and may be even safer becasue you don’t need to think too much. That is what we mean by instinct and there is no way to explain an instinct for the theatre, although those who have it recognize each other and a bond is formed between them. The need of theatre instinct may be why so many good writers have been such inferior playwrights—the light that a natural dramatist can see on a dark road is simply not there.

An Evening with Lillian Hellman, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 7, April 1974, p.12