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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

~Tom Stoppard

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Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

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The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

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The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

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Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

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It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

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When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

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The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'

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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

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Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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