Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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