Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
best british-dramatist displaced piece
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
people may excess
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
believe people handle
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
printed-word hierarchy printed
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
vision culture common
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
children humans loses
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
art definitions
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
too-much obscure
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
helping shows knows
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
believe i-believe responsible
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
thinking names lazy
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
age talent has-beens
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
use talent given
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.