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

Alan Bennett

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

Alan Bennett

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

Alan Bennett

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

Alan Bennett

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

Alan Bennett