A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists. This was inspired by a 1933 visit to a village called Marxzell in the Black Forest where young English gentlemen went to learn German and where his time briefly overlapped with his Harrow classmate Jock Colville. Life and career
Success as a playwright came early with the comedy French Without Tears in 1936 set in a crammer.

He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy (1946) The Browning Version (1948) The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954) among many others. Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists.