Top 31 Quotes by Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.