Believe Quote by Howard Barker

“I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp…

— Howard Barker

I'm not interested in observed reality.

— Howard Barker

I don't like sympathetic characters.

— Howard Barker

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;…

— Howard Barker

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I…

— Howard Barker

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is…

— Howard Barker

“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.”

— Howard Barker

I'm not interested in entertainment.

— Howard Barker

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

— Howard Barker

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

— Howard Barker

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

— Howard Barker