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Book Quotes by Alan Bennett
- Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
- Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
- The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you…
- But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly,…
- 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…
- Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of…
- A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
- You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
- The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or…
- ... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one…
- Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the…
- It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
- To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how…
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