“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.” RunningSchoolDiesLiteratureClassCenturyThreadTwentieth CenturySnobberyTweedSappers Author:Alan Bennett
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours” IfsWayInspirationalPersonsLongBookMomentsFeelingsHandsMotivationalReadingLiteratureTakenSpecialParticularMetsMetaphorReading BooksPlaywrightScreenwritersHolding HandsHandshakeBest MomentsBeautiful Moments Author:Alan Bennett
“Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.” WellsSaidMightHumanityLiteratureQueens Book:The Uncommon Reader Source: The Uncommon Reader
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.” BookCareReadingLiteratureReaderEqualLettersLaysAppealsIndifferenceRepublicCommonwealth Author:Alan Bennett
