Caryl Churchill

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and…

— Caryl Churchill

“Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.”

— Caryl Churchill

“Drunk enough to say "I love you?" - Caryl Churchill”

— Caryl Churchill

“Maud: Young women are never happy. Betty: Mother, what a thing to say. Maud: Then when they're older they look back and…

— Caryl Churchill

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust…

— Caryl Churchill

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee.…

— Caryl Churchill

“Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of…

— Caryl Churchill

What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But…

— Caryl Churchill

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

— Caryl Churchill

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

— Caryl Churchill

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

— Caryl Churchill

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her…

— Caryl Churchill

NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's…

— Caryl Churchill

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,…

— Caryl Churchill

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister…

— Caryl Churchill

You can't win every week.

— Caryl Churchill

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

— Caryl Churchill

“Or maybe there was no one there at all and you'd gone out so no matter how hard I shouted there was…

— Caryl Churchill

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

— Caryl Churchill

“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because…

— Caryl Churchill

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I…

— Caryl Churchill

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were…

— Caryl Churchill

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and…

— Caryl Churchill