Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter CH CBEwas a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Trial, and Sleuth. He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 October 1930
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
How can the unknown merit reverence?
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.