Quotes by Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I’ve been saying, ‘I’m finished. I haven’t got another one in me.’ But somehow you do.

Age

Close Friends

Mines

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you’ve to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

Boxing

Finding Yourself

Shadow

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Creativity

Facts

Selfish

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

Boys

Kids

Role Models

For most of my writing life, I’ve refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

Believe

Issues

Writing

From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Avid

Father

Two

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I’ve always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I’ve always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

Beach

Dark

Writing

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of ‘The Train Driver’ because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

Thinking

White

Writing

I’m always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

Disguise

Form

Play

I’m giving up acting. . . . I’m 66 and there are a number of celebrations I’ve got to get down on paper, and acting doesn’t allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It’s a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can’t go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus – almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

Giving Up

Lying

Writing

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Age

Anger

Answers

Artist

Avid

Beach

Bears

Believe

Boxing

Boys

Cancer

Close Friends

Creativity

Danger

Dark

Democracy

Different

Disguise

Done

Essentials

Facts

Father

Film

Finding Yourself

Flavor Of The Month

Fool

Form

Giving Up

Identity

Inspiration

Issues

Kids

Kind

Life Is

Love

Lying

Men

Mines

Months

New York

Night

Obligation

People

Play

Realization

Role Models

Sabotage

Selfish

Shadow

Stories

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Quotes by Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I’ve been saying, ‘I’m finished. I haven’t got another one in me.’ But somehow you do.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

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

For most of my writing life, I’ve refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of ‘The Train Driver’ because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

I’m always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

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