I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
BEN ELTONI don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
BEN ELTONI exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTONFor the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONI don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
BEN ELTONAnd of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONWe’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTONThere are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
BEN ELTONI’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTONBeyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
BEN ELTONIf I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
BEN ELTON