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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

~Tom Stoppard

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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

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You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

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If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

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I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

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I really just like to be at a desk.

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If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

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One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

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When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

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If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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