I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
BEN ELTONI loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
BEN ELTONThere are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
BEN ELTONI did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
BEN ELTONYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
BEN ELTONIf I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
BEN ELTONYou think I look like a teletubby?
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONI see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTONThe worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTONBooks are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONPeople who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTONKingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
BEN ELTONI don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
BEN ELTONThis calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTONFor the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
BEN ELTON