A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. David Hare More Quotes by David Hare More Quotes From David Hare Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. David Hare poetry nature keys I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. David Hare writing trying sex I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by. David Hare political views people The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth. David Hare russia views america I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point. David Hare good-relationship purpose art I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating. David Hare killing character cheating One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality. David Hare vitality getting-older walks I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss. David Hare loss america thinking One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. David Hare downing-street depressing law It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?" David Hare tease moments play The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them. David Hare dont-like-me majority winning I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it. David Hare theatre government people I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. David Hare reason play writing Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer. David Hare I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria. David Hare play believe thinking [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it. David Hare heart trying way I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. David Hare dinner argument party If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs. David Hare running war country Children always turn to the light. David Hare turns light children The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. David Hare fidelity adaptation mystery
