Dennis Potter Quotes

Dennis Potter
British Dramatist
Born: May 17, 1935
Died: Jun 7, 1994
About Childhood Children Just Writing You
Related authors: Anton Chekhov David Mamet Friedrich Schiller George Bernard Shaw Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams William Shakespeare Zora Neale Hurston
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? Dennis Potter
Writing Amazing Leap Metaphor Human Create Strangest Thing Speech
Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter
Language Embodied Metaphor
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter
Words Personality Will Some Parcel Part Part And Parcel Continually Childhood Images Symbols
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. Dennis Potter
You Words Trouble Never Know Been Mouths Whose
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Dennis Potter
Love Too Much Too See Obscure To Love Much
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. Dennis Potter
Work You Analysis Tell Critics Write Put Because End Impulse Fiction
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. Dennis Potter
Truth Own Down Imagination Must Some About Putting Very Act Thing
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. Dennis Potter
Every Magic Also Eden Terrors Leave Loss Wonder Childhood Experienced Personally Us Pains
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. Dennis Potter
Culture Vision Simply Remote Common Now
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. Dennis Potter
Religion You Believe Know Handle Just Either
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. Dennis Potter
Emotions Dangerous Dangerous Thing Instant Access Your Thing
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. Dennis Potter
Word Hierarchies Ideals Printed Jump Across
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. Dennis Potter
God Think Writer Lazy New Names Up Even
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Dennis Potter
Best Writing Criticism Kind About Piece Freud Literacy Displaced

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