Alan Ayckbourn Quotes
- Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
- Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
- There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.
- As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human…
- The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
- If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment…
- He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
- I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . .…
- What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the…
- A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as…