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 know what in hell he was talking about.
Source:Conversations with Arthur Miller (1987), The Art of the Theatre II: Arthur Miller, an Interview by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron (Paris Review, 1966), Page 104
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