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31 quotes by Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. His work in television drama began with contributions to BBC television's The Wednesday Play anthology series from 1965, and continued for the next thirty years. His BBC TV serial The Singing Detective (1986) was particularly well received. This work and many of his television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the...
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

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

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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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

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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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

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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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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.

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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

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