Alan Bennett
English writer, director, and actor
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.
—Alan Bennett, English writer, director, and actor, Writing Home, 1994
Posted on October 7, 1999 at 7:54 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The difference between writing for stage and for television is almost an optical one. Language on the stage has to be slightly larger than life because it is being heard in a much larger space. Plot counts for less on the television screen because one is seeing the characters at closer quarters than in the theatre.
—Alan Bennett, English writer, director, and actor, Writing Home, 1994
Posted on October 22, 1999 at 8:53 AM
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