Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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