I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. Alan Bennett Read Quote
I don’t want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. Alan Bennett Read Quote
I’ve been very lucky in everything, really – in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying. Alan Bennett Read Quote
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner’s hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. Alan Bennett Read Quote
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. Alan Bennett Read Quote
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. Alan Bennett Read Quote
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. Alan Bennett Read Quote
I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. Alan Bennett Read Quote
