Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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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.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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