Harold Pinter Quotes about Literature

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

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

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

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

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

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

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

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

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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

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

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