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" The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

" A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. "

" I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. "

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

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

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

" Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. "

" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "

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

" I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. "

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

" Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen. "

" I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. "

" I'm a very boring person. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. "

" The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. "

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

" If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me. "

" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "

" I don't even know what my voice is to this day. "

" I feel overestimated. "

" In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?' "

" The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. "