The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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