Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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