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" 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. "

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

" My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. "

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

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

" If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. "

" Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. "

" Corporeal death is not the whole story. "

" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "

" I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. "

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

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

" I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. "

" A free press needs to be a respected press. "

" As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. "

" Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. "

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

" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "

" Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. "

" It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. "

" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "

" Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. "

" I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. "

" I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. "

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

" 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. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" I don't feel like a Londoner. "