…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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