Harold Pinter Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

  Harold Pinter

  Memories, Past, Literature

  "Thom Yorke composes music for Harold Pinter play on Broadway" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2015.

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Literature, Life Worth Living

• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

  War, Thinking, Criminals

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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

  Harold Pinter

  Attitude, Iraq, Gdp

• 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

  Literature, World, Systematic

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  Harold Pinter

  America, Criminals, United States

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

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Damage, Destruction

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

• It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Easy, Propaganda

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

• 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

  Years, Doe, Doing Me

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

• I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

  Harold Pinter

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

• I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

  Harold Pinter

  Hate, Literature, Modern

  Harold Pinter (1979). “Betrayal”, p.116, Grove Press

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

  Harold Pinter

  Light, Literature, Appreciated

• 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

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True Or False, True And False

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

• 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

  Wise, Thinking, Literature

• 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

  Writing, Independent, Boys

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  Harold Pinter

  Government, League, Challenging The Status Quo

• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Court, International

• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Maelstrom, Centre

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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

  Harold Pinter

  Speech, Way, Literature

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

• A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

  Harold Pinter

  Mean, Long, Pieces

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  Harold Pinter

  Stupid, Silly, Literature

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

• I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

  Harold Pinter

  Pain, Cancer, Arses

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  Harold Pinter

  Relationship, Knights, Government

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Speak, Ought

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