Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”
“All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.”