Quotes of Howard Barker - somelinesforyou

“ When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. ”

- Howard Barker

“ We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I am compelled to write because I have an artist's personality, it is a psychologically-determined thing, one best not explored perhaps. But I write because I must. And frequently I do not know what I am writing, and can talk of what I've written only a long time afterwards. ”

- Howard Barker

“ We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists. ”

- Howard Barker

“ We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ”

- Howard Barker

“ The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists. ”

- Howard Barker

“ When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker

“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”

- Howard Barker
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