Dennis Potter Quotes

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

God, Lazy, Writer

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter

Words, Trouble, Whose

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

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Dennis Potter

Yourself, Order, Assert

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
Dennis Potter

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
Dennis Potter

Best, Writing, Criticism

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

Enough, Callous

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

Children, Cruel, Yes

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

Poetry, Children, Write

Everything we do has consequences.
Dennis Potter

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Dennis Potter

Themselves, Everybody

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter

Understand, Until, Illness

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

Age, Talent, Aware

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Dennis Potter

Lost, Everyone, Childhood

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Dennis Potter

Talent, Obligation

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Dennis Potter

Word, Jump, Ideals

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter

Dangerous, Emotions, Instant

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

Art, Bad, Letting

Metaphor is embodied in language.
Dennis Potter

Language, Metaphor, Embodied

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

May, Deal, Lead

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

Religion, Either, Handle

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

Words, Childhood, Images

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

Television, Filth, Mr

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Dennis Potter

Vision, Culture, Common

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

Knowledge, Human, Lose

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 17, 1935

Died: June 7, 1994

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