STOPPARD, THOMAS : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is “real” and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Thomas Stoppard, Czech-born British award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Born 1937)

STOPPARD, THOMAS : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Thomas Stoppard, Czech-born British award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Born 1937)