Quotes by : Alan Bennett

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking....

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.

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly....

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have....

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but....

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for....

Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage....

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without....

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.