If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
