Alan Bennett Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Alan Bennett quotes and sayings page 4 (90 year old dramatist). These are the last 5 out of 35 quotes we have for him.

“I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.”

“I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.”

“I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.”

“I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.”

“Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.”