You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — 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
