Edward Bond Quotes about Literature

I think there is no world without theatre.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.