Literary Birthday – 5 June – David Hare
Happy Birthday, David Hare, born on 5 June 1947.
David Hare Quotes
- No one but a fool is always right.
- The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
- If you like judging, please: be a lawyer. Run a dog show. There’s a whole lot of jobs if judging is your passion in life. But take my advice: if you want to be happy, keep your judging professional. And don’t start putting in practice at home.
- Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
- I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
- What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I’m afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they’re not compatible.
- Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Read: David Hare’s 10 Rules for Writers
David Hare is an award-winning English playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel written by Bernhard Schlink. His plays include Skylight, Stuff Happens, and The Blue Room. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. He was knighted in the 1998 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to theatre. His latest book is We Travelled: Essays and Poems.
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