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Tom Stoppard Quotes

English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -

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 for their turn.

Grateful Waiting Play Happen Turn

I take every possible side.

Possible Side Take Every

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

Work Art Better You Emotions Play

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 getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

People Writing Small Frustration You

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Happy Loved Being English Fact Very

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

People You Kind Meet Get Reporter

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

People Conversation Argument Talk

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

You Earth Write Own Your How

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

Hope Time Showing Up You Go Own

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

Good Character People Mind Feel You

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

World Care You Want Always Reviews

I really just like to be at a desk.

Desk Just Like Really

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