A biography for Harold Pinterhasn’t been written yet.
“The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.”
“I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.”
“Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.”
“I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.”
“It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.”
“I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.”
“I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.”
“Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.”
“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”
“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.”
“All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.”
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
“A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.”
“RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you.”
“George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.”
“Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.”
“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.”
“I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.”
“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”
“I also found being called Sir rather silly.”