Alan Bennett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.”

“I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.”

“Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.”

“Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.”

“Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.”

“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”

“Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.”

“I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.”

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.”