Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETT
One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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