Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Kids who read become students who do well in school. Students who do well in school go to college. College students graduate… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“BURGESS How do you like Moscow? CORAL Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
