Dennis Potter Quotes - Page 2

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

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

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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

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.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.