Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
Alan BennettAuthors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
Alan BennettDefinition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett