Alan Bennett Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 Bennett

  Book, Writing, Want

• Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.53, Faber & Faber

• ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Writing, Impossible

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

• 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. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

  Alan Bennett

  Kindness, Reading, Book

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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

  Alan Bennett

  Writing, Play, Roots

• Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

  Alan Bennett

  Wall, Nice, Writing

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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