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Write Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you…
- I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
- can only write about what bites you.
- I write out of my intellectual experience.
- I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
- I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
- I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will…
- 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 was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who…
- 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…
- The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things…
- He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to…
- I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
- If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
- I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into…
- I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where…
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