Top 35 Quotes by Alan Bennett

About Alan Bennett

These are some quotes by English author Alan Bennett Dramatist, who was born on May 9, 1934.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

I don't believe in private education.

I don't believe in private education.

Alan Bennett

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

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

Alan Bennett

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.

Alan Bennett

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Alan Bennett

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

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

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

My films are about embarrassment.

Alan Bennett

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Alan Bennett

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Alan Bennett

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

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

Alan Bennett

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