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" 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. "

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" Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it. "

Tom Stoppard

Why

Write

Better

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" 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. "

" My brain cells are dying in their trillions. "

" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "

Tom Stoppard

Interested

Reviews

" Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. "

Tom Stoppard

Being

Event

" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "

" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "

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

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

" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "

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

" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer. "

" 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. "

" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "

Tom Stoppard

Least

England

" The days of the digital watch are numbered. "

" 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. "

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

" If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way. "

" The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. "

" I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. "

Tom Stoppard

Good

Shown

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

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

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. "

" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "

" I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. "

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

" 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. "

" I think journalism is important. "