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" I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them. "

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" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "

" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

" If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. "

" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "

" I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. "

" Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' "

" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

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" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your 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. "

" Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. "

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

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

" I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. "

" All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. "

" I think journalism is important. "

" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "

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

" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "

" I feel overestimated. "

" Every exit is an entry somewhere else. "

" If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "

" 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. "

" In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. "

" The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play. "

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. "

" I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. "

" 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. "