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

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" When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. "

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

" The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. "

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

" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. "

" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

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" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "

" You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. "

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

" 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. "

" A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. "

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

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

" Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. "

" For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. "

" The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. "

" 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 draw on my inner life in my work. "

" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 take every possible side. "

" You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. "

" 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. "