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A Gardener in Love, Intimate Exchanges (1982).
“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Preface to The Norman Conquests (New York: Grove Press, [1975] 1988) p. 11.
“There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.”
Newsweek, March 25, 1979.
“The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.”
The Crafty Art of Playwriting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 3.
"A Crash Course in Playwriting" (1993) http://education.alanayckbourn.net/EducationInterviewsPlaywriting.htm.
