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 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I 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.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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I 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.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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My 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!
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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