Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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