You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTOne reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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