Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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 write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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