Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
More Quotes by Laura Wade
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
I don't like writing with real people in mind.
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.