About Quotes by Tom Stoppard

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

— Tom Stoppard

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

— Tom Stoppard

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

— Tom Stoppard

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

— Tom Stoppard

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find…

— Tom Stoppard

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where…

— Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not…

— Tom Stoppard

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to…

— Tom Stoppard

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,…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was…

— Tom Stoppard

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's…

— Tom Stoppard

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was…

— Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I…

— Tom Stoppard

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to…

— Tom Stoppard

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it.…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the…

— Tom Stoppard

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…

— Tom Stoppard

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a…

— Tom Stoppard

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started…

— Tom Stoppard

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who…

— Tom Stoppard

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which…

— Tom Stoppard