Quotes by Harold Pinter

About Harold Pinter:

Harold Pinter was 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 (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Harold Pinter

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Harold Pinter

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

Harold Pinter

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Harold Pinter

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.

Harold Pinter

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.

Harold Pinter

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

Harold Pinter

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Harold Pinter

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Harold Pinter

One's life has many compartments.

Harold Pinter

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Harold Pinter

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Harold Pinter

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Harold Pinter

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Harold Pinter

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

Harold Pinter

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

Harold Pinter

Author Bio

  • NameHarold Pinter
  • Descriptionplaywright from England
  • BornOctober 10, 1930
  • DiedDecember 24, 2008
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Writer
  • WorksThe Room; The Birthday Party; The Dumb Waiter; The Caretaker
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour; Laurence Olivier Award; Austrian State Prize For European Literature; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Hermann Kesten Prize; Franz Kafka Prize; America Award In Literature