Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
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.
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.
art definitions
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
too-much obscure
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
helping shows knows
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
age talent has-beens
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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.
thinking land childhood
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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.
people adults enough
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
consequence
Everything we do has consequences.