62 Quotes by Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn’t know you knew.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination.

Television’s Mr. Filth: that’s me.