Ed Stoppard Quotes

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.