I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get …

Tom Stoppard
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. ✨ Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'. Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.
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, … ▶
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come … ▶
Words, words. They're all we have to go on. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, p.32, Faber & Faber
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and sud … ▶

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

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