62 Quotes by Dennis Potter

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

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.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

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

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.