Alan Bennett - Point Quotes

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Alan Bennett Quotes

Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Alan Bennett

But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all.

Alan Bennett