I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
Alan BennettBooks are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
Alan BennettTags: reading books experience travel hobbies
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan BennettTags: imagination books inspiration
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
Alan BennettTags: books
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Alan BennettWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan BennettTags: life society humour anarchy rules
How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another
Alan Bennett...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all.
Alan BennettYou don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
Alan Bennett...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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