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.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

Tom Stoppard

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Tom Stoppard

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Tom Stoppard

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

Tom Stoppard

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

Tom Stoppard

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

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.

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

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tom Stoppard

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

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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