Author: Dennis Potter

Quotes

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

- Dennis Potter

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

- Dennis Potter

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

- Dennis Potter

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

- Dennis Potter

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

- Dennis Potter

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

- Dennis Potter

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

- Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

- Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

- Dennis Potter

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