Jack Thorne: My first 20 plays? They're all dire
Everyone told me to do something else but I persevered as a playwright thanks to Simon Stephens, who said every writer has a myth. It's puzzled me ever since… ' Mark Lawson meets Jack ThorneI think I started writing plays as a way of expressing the things that I couldn't say. I'm a constant idiot in conversation " I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by c…