28 Quotes by Laura Wade

A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?