In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. — 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
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of… — 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
The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build… — 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
Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. — 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
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