Alan BennettThinkers

Biography is cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint pot.

A Book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Class is in the social DNA of the Brit. Put three Englishmen on a desert island nad within an hour they'll have invented a class system.

A Classic is a book that everybody is assumed to have read and often think they have.

Sweden is country where they commit suicide and the king rides a bicycle.

Writing is one-tenth perspiration and nine-tenth masturbation.