Top 31 Quotes by Dennis Potter

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

Everything we do has consequences.

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 think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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

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

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

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

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.