Beth Henley

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.