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

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" It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line. "

" Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. "

" I really just like to be at a desk. "

" 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. "

" Corporeal death is not the whole story. "

" If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. "

" My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. "

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

" I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. "

" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. "

" Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. "

" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "

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

" You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. "

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees. "

" 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. "

" In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' "

" I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. "

" 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, into it. "

" When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. "

" I think journalism is important. "

" I'm attracted to the past. "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care! "

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

" If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. "

" I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. "