There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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