He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. — 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
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream… — 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
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“HENRY: Leave me out of it. They don’t count. Maybe Brodie got a raw deal, maybe he didn’t. I don’t know. It… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — 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
