Dennis Potter

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

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ”

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. ”

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? ”

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. ”

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

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

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

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. ”