Athol Quotes

Love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. — Athol Fugard

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along. — Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. — Athol Fugard

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life. — Athol Fugard

Aman cant spend his life with only one thought — Athol Fugard

we're bumping into each other all the time... — Athol Fugard

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. — Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. — Athol Fugard

Be careful, Hally."
"Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it. — Athol Fugard

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. — Athol Fugard

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. — Athol Fugard

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools. — Athol Fugard

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. — Athol Fugard

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way. — Athol Fugard

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern — Athol Dickson

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean? — Athol Fugard

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me. — Athol Fugard

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays. — Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer. — Athol Fugard