One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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