Peter Shaffer

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#england #first #i #i was born #life

I was an accomplice in my own frustration. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#frustration #i #my own #own

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#race #tedious #tend

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#adolescence #childhood #london #opposed #spent

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#making #play #process #publishing #rehearsing

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#conflict #different #different kinds #kinds #me

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#couples #eyes #fat #italian #just

You can't always let people do their own thing. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#own #people #their #thing #you

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. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#going #imagination #know #leave #me

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bore #bores #extraordinary #extraordinary thing #him