43 Quotes by Hugh Leonard

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.