If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
ALAN BENNETTA 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
-
-
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETT -
My films are about embarrassment.
ALAN BENNETT -
In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETT -
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETT -
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
ALAN BENNETT -
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT -
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETT -
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
ALAN BENNETT -
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETT -
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETT -
But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
ALAN BENNETT -
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
ALAN BENNETT -
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETT -
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.
ALAN BENNETT -
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT