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" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

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" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "

" I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it. "

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

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" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "

" Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

" We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. "

" I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured. "

" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "

" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "

" I'm good at being funny. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. "

" 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 every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. "

" To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? "

" In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays. "

" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "

" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "