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.
ALAN BENNETTThe days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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