Top 275 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard

These are some quotes by English author Tom Stoppard Dramatist, who was born on July 3, 1937.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Tom Stoppard

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

Tom Stoppard

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

Tom Stoppard

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

Tom Stoppard

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Tom Stoppard

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

Tom Stoppard

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

Tom Stoppard

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Tom Stoppard

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