Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
writing analysis fiction
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.
beautiful creative analysis
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
believe i-believe responsible
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
thinking names lazy
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
children writing poet
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
children littles creatures
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
emotion dangerous instant
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
believe people handle
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
printed-word hierarchy printed
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
vision culture common
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
people may excess
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
children humans loses
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
helping shows knows
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
too-much obscure
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.