Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
STEPHEN FRYMany people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYI think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
STEPHEN FRYIt was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
STEPHEN FRYI’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYYou don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
STEPHEN FRYMy life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYNow, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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