Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. — Alan Bennett History Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Care 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… — Alan Bennett Three sisters Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas… — Alan Bennett Directors Copy Share Image
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Book Copy Share Image
“I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense… — Alan Bennett Children Copy Share Image
“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse… — Alan Bennett Librarian Copy Share Image
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't… — Alan Bennett Book Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you… — Alan Bennett Action Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Then down into Giggleswick to a silly supper and a game of Trivial Pursuit. To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like… — Alan Bennett Doctor Copy Share Image
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less… — Alan Bennett Book Copy Share Image
“I would have thought," said the prime minister, "that Your Majesty was above literature." "Above literature?" said the Queen. "Who is above… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall,… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth… — Alan Bennett Librarian Copy Share Image
“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“ . . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of… — Alan Bennett Catholics Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a… — Alan Bennett Boys Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bennett Ageing Copy Share Image
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only… — Alan Bennett Dusk 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… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
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