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 BENNETTOnce I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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