Alan Bennett: Quotes about books

Alan Bennett is English actor, author. Explore interesting quotes on books.

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“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 the reading she wanted to do.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“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 it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”

“… Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“It was the kind of library
he had only read about in books.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader