The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. Dennis Potter More Quotes by Dennis Potter More Quotes From Dennis Potter Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. Dennis Potter creatures littles children Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. Dennis Potter poet writing children God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. Dennis Potter lazy names thinking I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. Dennis Potter responsible i-believe believe I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. Dennis Potter has-beens talent age Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises Dennis Potter discourse mask disguise I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. Dennis Potter childhood land thinking I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. Dennis Potter talent given use The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. Dennis Potter A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew. Dennis Potter shows knows helping 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. Dennis Potter yeast done way 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 imagination I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go. Dennis Potter single-mom regret dying 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 metaphor speech writing Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. Dennis Potter hierarchy printed printed-word You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. Dennis Potter about-yourself being-yourself order It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. Dennis Potter instant dangerous emotion 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 handle believe people Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make. Dennis Potter The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. Dennis Potter words never know you
