Beth Henley

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.