649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

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.

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

I don't feel like a Londoner.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

I'm good at being funny.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'