The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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