ideas Quotes

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.