Quotes by : Alan Bennett

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.....

At eighty things do not occur they recur.

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

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in....

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....

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the....

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps:....

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.