Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
way done yeast
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
pain loss eden
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.
beautiful creative analysis
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
animal important-choices political
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
past long looks
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
travel airports saws
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
boys wonderful celebrate
The nowness of everything is absolutely wonderful.... If you see the present tense, boy do you see it, and boy can you celebrate it.
age talent has-beens
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
use talent given
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
thinking land childhood
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
mask disguise discourse
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
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.
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.