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Writing 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.
- Save the gerund and screw the whale.
- can only write about what bites you.
- I write out of my intellectual experience.
- I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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 never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and…
- 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…
- Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
- I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge…
- Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The…
- 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.
- The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to…
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
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