What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible. — 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 writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than… — 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 Image
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 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
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
