We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan BennettI was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
Alan BennettIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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.
Alan Bennett