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

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

" 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. "

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

" Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem. "

" 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. "

" To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him. "

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

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "

" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "

" My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel overestimated. "

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

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

" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "

" If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. "

" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "

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

" When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about. "

" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "

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

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

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

" I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing. "