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Alan Bennett

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 school

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

— Alan Bennett love

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

— Alan Bennett men

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 art

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

— Alan Bennett you

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

— Alan Bennett control

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.

— Alan Bennett men

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

— Alan Bennett children

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

— Alan Bennett knowledge

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

— Alan Bennett

I don't believe in private education.

— Alan Bennett education

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

— Alan Bennett mind

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 sea

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

— Alan Bennett life

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

— Alan Bennett life

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

— Alan Bennett age

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

— Alan Bennett memories

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

— Alan Bennett love

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 world

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

— Alan Bennett art

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

— Alan Bennett sex

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

— Alan Bennett book

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

— Alan Bennett life

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

— Alan Bennett need

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett humanity

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