Israel Horovitz

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.