Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
ALAN BENNETTI think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Authors, 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.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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