Tom Stoppard Quotes

English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

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The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

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Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

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I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

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I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

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When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

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I think theater ought to be theatrical.

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I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

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There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to.

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The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

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