Most of the desultory courses that I've taken in literature have had a peculiar snobbism about them.
Interviewer: Do you think these critics influence playwrights?
Miller: Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use. He's the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would kn…
Interviewer: Do any of the younger playwrights create heroes — in your opinion?
Miller: I tell you, I may be working on a different wave length, but I don't think they are looking at character any more, at the documentation of facts about people. All experience is looked at now from a schematic …
Bellow: The volume of judgments one is called upon to make depends upon the receptivity of the observer, and if one is very receptive, one has a terrifying number of opinions to render "What do you think about this, about that, about Viet Nam, about city planning, about expressways, or garbage disp…
Interviewer: How much are you conscious of the reader when you write? Is there an ideal audience that you write for?
Bellow: I have in mind another human being who will understand me. I count on this. Not on perfect understanding, which is Cartesian, but on approximate understanding, which is …
