The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.

Writing is a form of mischief.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.