When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. Tom Stoppard 6mmbulletdodge Change image and share on social
I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. Tom Stoppard backcassettecome share on social
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. Tom Stoppard attractfilmmedium Change image and share on social
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. Tom Stoppard analyticcriticalinterest Change image and share on social
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. Tom Stoppard childdeaddeserve share on social
