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> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

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> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a-2/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

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## More by Christopher Hampton

> [There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/there-is-a-sort-of-theory-that-you-should-adapt-bad-books-because/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-always-divide-people-into-two-groups-those-who-live-by-what-they/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-think-there-s-something-degrading-about-having-a-husband-for-a/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-like-l-a-but-i-think-whats-changed-is-that-the-kinds-of-films-i-do/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/my-problem-is-i-m-a-man-of-no-convictions-at-least-i-think-i-am/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-love-films-if-i-d-known-how-to-get-into-or-do-it-from-the-word-go-i/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/if-you-take-a-really-good-book-then-the-potential-is-for-a-really/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/it-s-great-to-get-out-of-the-study-and-work-with-real-living-and/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/a-great-number-of-the-disappointments-and-mishaps-of-the-troubled/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/often-i-think-the-novels-i-read-won-t-make-very-good-movies-i-better/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-became-a-virtuoso-of-deceit-it-wasn-t-pleasure-i-was-after-it-was/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/i-m-ashamed-to-say-the-first-play-i-saw-at-the-royal-court-was-mine/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/you-see-i-always-divide-people-into-two-groups-those-who-live-by-what/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

> [You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/you-know-very-well-that-unless-you-re-a-scientist-it-s-much-more/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

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