A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher HamptonI find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher HamptonYou see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher HamptonI love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
Christopher Hampton