The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good… — David Hare Copy Share Image
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want… — David Hare Copy Share Image
For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a… — David Hare Copy Share Image
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare Copy Share
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare Copy Share
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this… — David Hare Copy Share
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare Copy Share
When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is… — David Hare Copy Share
My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is… — David Hare Copy Share
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. — David Hare Copy Share
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point. — David Hare Copy Share
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