Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONArtists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONComedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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 find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONThe earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
BEN ELTONI’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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 ELTONI exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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 only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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 ELTONI resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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 ELTON