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Plays Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
- I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
- I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter,…
- Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking…
- I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
- Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
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