Alan Bennett

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.

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

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.