101 Quotes by David Hare

The majority don’t like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it’s the only thing worth having.

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I’m afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they’re not compatible.

The most important playwright’s gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That’s too easy.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it’s the only thing I’m any good at.

I love you, for God’s sake. I still love you. I loved you more than anyone on earth. But I’ll never trust you, after what happened. It’s what Alice said. You’ll never grow up. There is no peace in you.

I’m vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can’t, at a dinner party, explain why I’m a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.