--- title: "1 Look Words Quotes By Peter Shaffer" description: "1 Look Words quotes by Peter Shaffer. Plus more from Peter Shaffer and more Look Words sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/peter-shaffer-8949_am_i-discover-what-i-mean-as-i-write-that-c_1880259.jpg" --- > [I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/i-discover-what-i-mean-as-i-write-that-can-be-both-terrifically/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/peter-shaffer-8949_am_i-discover-what-i-mean-as-i-write-that-c_1880259.jpg) ## More by Peter Shaffer > [Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/worship-isn-t-destructive-martin-i-know-that-i-don-t-i-only-know-it-s/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/the-trouble-is-if-you-dont-spend-your-life-yourself-other-people/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/goodness-is-nothing-in-the-furnace-of-art/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/they-look-so-expectant-and-then-they-look-so-depressed-that-was-the/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/i-was-brought-up-in-an-orthodox-jewish-household-i-don-t-think-i-ever/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/watching-italian-opera-all-those-male-sopranos-screeching-stupid-fat/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/in-an-ultimate-sense-i-cannot-know-what-i-do-in-this-place-yet-i-do/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/he-knows-no-physics-or-engineering-to-make-the-world-real-to-him-no/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/the-conquistadors-and-their-followers-were-very-rough-people-and-they/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/we-our-war-began-september-the-3rd-1939-with-the-invasion-of-poland/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/when-equus-leaves-if-he-leaves-at-all-it-will-be-with-your-intestines/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [“Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/do-you-know-what-it-s-like-for-two-people-to-live-in-the-same-house/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/what-the-eye-does-not-see-the-heart-does-not-grieve-over-does-it/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/it-s-an-extraordinary-thing-about-mozart-is-that-you-never-tire-of/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) > [The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-shaffer/the-devil-isn-t-made-by-what-mommy-says-or-what-daddy-says-the-devil/) [Peter Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-shaffer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/look-words/peter-shaffer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Look Words Quotes By Peter Shaffer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I discover what I mean as I write. 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