You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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A 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.
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