Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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…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.
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