Best Tom Stoppard Words
- I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting… Grab
- I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. Educating
- It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Beer
- James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. Essentially
- Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. All
- My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally,… Ideally
- My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the… Always Tried
- Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Corny
- The days of the digital watch are numbered. Days
- The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. Attracted
- The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. English
- Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's… All
- I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut… Contradicting
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. America
- If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a… Age
- From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic… Age
- I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about… Been
- In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed… Behave
- I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying… All
- I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and… Always Felt
- I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… Artist
- As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas.… Able
- For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write… All
- If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect… Audience
- It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author… Ashtray
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