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.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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