Top 37 Quotes by Peter Shaffer

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.