Dramatist Quotes

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.
I don't believe in private education.
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.
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