All writing begins in the sea of experience.
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else. In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.