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

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" It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. "

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

" The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

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

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

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

" I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. "

" I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. "

" I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. "

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

" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "

" 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. "

" I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. "

" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "

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

" Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. "