Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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