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.

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.

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.

Alan Bennett

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

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

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

Alan Bennett

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

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

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