My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o’clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day. Harold Pinter Read Quote
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. Harold Pinter Read Quote
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. Harold Pinter Read Quote
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn’t have to change a word. Harold Pinter Read Quote
I was told that, when ‘Betrayal’ was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable. Harold Pinter Read Quote
As far as I’m concerned, ‘The Caretaker’ is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it. Harold Pinter Read Quote
I’m well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being ‘enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding’. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won’t deny it. Harold Pinter Read Quote
