To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which… — 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
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. — 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
