Famous quotes by Playwrights

"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Reality in our century is not something to be faced"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: Sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented, but nobody talks about them"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"The Companion of Honour, I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"One's life has many compartments"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of Western democracies to the rest of the world"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court, which has international respect"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

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