Hugh Leonard
Hugh Leonard
Hugh Leonardwas an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essays, two autobiographies, three novels and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth9 November 1926
CountryIreland
almost devoted fought great irish-dramatist love married people seem startled
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
asthma died few irish-dramatist minutes taken utterly wife within
I was taken completely by surprise. My wife died within a few minutes from an asthma attack. I was utterly destroyed. I was mad, crazy, I was howling.
again cannot drop great irish-dramatist phrase resist
I restrain myself a great deal. I don't say it, or I phrase it differently. But now and again I drop a lulu because I cannot resist it.
pain wife levels
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
thinking two people
I think with every writer there are two people there.
grief difficult feels
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
eye wife one-day
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
father writing play
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
thinking play perfect-one
I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
survival always-believe
I've always believed in survival.
writing able
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
men company enjoyed
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
kindness hate thinking
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
father notes deathbed
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.