Playwright Quotes

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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