Author: Dennis Potter

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

- 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

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

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