81 Quotes by Peter Shaffer

I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.