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Alan Bennett Quotes

Alan Bennett quotes about writing

English Playwright May 9, 1934

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...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
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 characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them. Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett quote: "I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I..."
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. Alan Bennett
...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all. Alan Bennett

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