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.
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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.Howard Barker
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
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I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
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Certainly I never write for utilitarian reasons - to help others understand issues, to improve society and so on. I regard those as fatuous pretexts. Let us keep social work out of the theatre.
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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
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