It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

I don’t even know how one would go about teaching the drama. One can’t tell students how to write; therefore why doesn’t drama belong to literature just as literature belongs to the drama? This is not to say that certain technical aspects of the theatre such as stage designing and lighting cannot be taught; it may even be possible to each acting, although personally I’m very uncertain about that. Theatre writing, however, in my mind, is unteachable. It seems much more closely tied to instinct than do other forms of literature.

An Evening with Lillian Hellman, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 7, April 1974, p.32