Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBEwas an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been turned into films...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth15 May 1926
life people inspire
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
children thinking purpose
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
eye heart grieving
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
beauty-of-life made feels
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
years land america
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
years nine firsts
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
childhood london adolescence
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
race librarian tedious
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
two tragedy different
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
love-is doorways prison
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.
champion world saint
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
funny taken humor
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
play flesh process
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
imagination leave-me-alone never-quit
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.