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
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.
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.
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.
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.
father notes deathbed
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.