Just Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

— Tom Stoppard

I really just like to be at a desk.

— Tom Stoppard

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

— Tom Stoppard

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just…

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Tom Stoppard

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest…

— 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

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

— Tom Stoppard

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers…

— Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100…

— 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 is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just…

— Tom Stoppard

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five…

— Tom Stoppard

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather…

— 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