Quotes by Dennis Potter

About Dennis Potter:

Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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

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I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can c...

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You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

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. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window ...

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

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

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

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

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

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

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

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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameDennis Potter
  • DescriptionEnglish television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
  • BornMay 17, 1935
  • DiedJune 7, 1994
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Theatre Director; Author