Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
writing analysis fiction
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.
emotion dangerous instant
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
being-yourself order about-yourself
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
regret single-mom dying
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.
imagination
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
childhood personality fatherhood
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
language metaphor
Metaphor is embodied in language.
television filth
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
pain loss eden
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
beautiful creative analysis
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
animal important-choices political
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.