You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers… — 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
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
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
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — 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
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — 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
