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.
ALAN BENNETTAuthors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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