British Screenwriter Quotes

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls (writer)

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Charlie Fletcher

Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

Alexander Masters

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

Ben Aaronovitch

Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.

Graham Masterton

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value.

Geoffrey Household

And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!

Cecil Arthur Lewis

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

To lose a lover or even a husband or two during the course of one's life can be vexing. But to lose one's teeth is a catastrophe.