Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
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.