The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.
Tom StoppardThe days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Tom StoppardTheater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom StoppardMy work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Tom StoppardIf you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom StoppardThe trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.
Tom Stoppard