Top 31 Quotes by Dennis Potter

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

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

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

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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

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.

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

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.