“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.” MenWritingFirstsYoungGirlFoundSexDifficultEventsSceneHorseSatisfiedGet UpAttractiveYoung ManPlaywright Author:Peter Shaffer
“Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.” PeopleWritingPlayFearMy OwnClassHatredDearFranceFrightenedBitternessDear Sister Author:Peter Shaffer
“I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBookPlayMovingGrowsSoil Author:Peter Shaffer
