Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — 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
Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just… — 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
