Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTA photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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