But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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