Dennis Potter Quotes

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter

Leave, Wonder, Childhood

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter

Work, Surely, Tame

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

Amazing, Human, Writing

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

Truth, Down, Act

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter

Beautiful, Creative, Whole

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 17, 1935

Died: June 7, 1994

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