Tom Stoppard Quotes About Writing

• Escribo ficción porque es una forma de hacer afirmaciones que puedo desmentir.

  Tom Stoppard

  Escritura, Ficción, Camino

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). "Tom Stoppard in Conversation", p.49, University of Michigan Press.

• Sigo creyendo que si tu objetivo es cambiar el mundo, el periodismo es un arma más inmediata a corto plazo.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspiración, Creer, Escribir

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). "Tom Stoppard in Conversation", p.196, University of Michigan Press.

• No puedo decir que escriba con ningún objetivo social. Uno escribe porque le gusta escribir, de verdad.

  Tom Stoppard

  Escritura, One Love, Social

  Tom Stoppard (1984). "Tom Stoppard, Falta profesional: notas".

• I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). "Tom Stoppard in Conversation", p.49, University of Michigan Press.

• I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Niños, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Tom Stoppard (1999). "Arcadia"

• Save the gerund and screw the whale.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Editing, Whales

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• La fantasía fluye donde los hechos dejan un vacío.

  Tom Stoppard

  Escritura, Vacío, Flujo

• The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Mean, Tragedy

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 573:3

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Long, Half

• Lo cotidiano de nuestras vidas, aquello sobre lo que la gente escribe poesía -nubes, narcisos, cascadas, lo que ocurre en una taza de café cuando se echa la nata- está lleno de misterio, tan misterioso para nosotros como lo era el cielo para los griegos.

  Tom Stoppard

  Café, escritura, nubes

  Tom Stoppard (2013). "Arcadia", p.62, Faber & Faber.

• He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

  Tom Stoppard

  Home, Writing, Known

  "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. September 10, 1990.

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Editing, Good Things

• I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). "Tom Stoppard in Conversation", p.31, University of Michigan Press.

• The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Writing, Clothes

  "The Real Thing". Book by Tom Stoppard, November 16, 1982.

• Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Frustration, Small Numbers

• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Artist, Oxygen

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

• Probablemente sea inaudito que un cineasta simplemente tome el guión de los guionistas y lo trate como las instrucciones del paquete. Lo que realmente ocurre es que uno suprime sus propios instintos -y sus propias opiniones al respecto- y escribe las cosas como a los cineastas les gustaría que fueran, aunque los cineastas a menudo no saben lo que quieren. Sólo pueden saberlo leyendo lo que tú haces.

  Tom Stoppard

  Reading, Writing, Views

  Fuente: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• can only write about what bites you.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Bites

• Mi vida se siente, semana a semana, incompleta hasta el punto de carecer de sentido si no estoy preparándome para la siguiente obra o, en el mejor de los casos, metida en ella.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Preparation

  "Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.

• I write out of my intellectual experience.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Intellectual

• Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

  Tom Stoppard

  Drama, Writing, Russia

  Source: news.postimees.ee

• I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Library, Needs

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Writing, Glasses

• For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

  Tom Stoppard

  Escribir, pensar, jugar

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