Dennis Potter Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born: May 17, 1935
- Died: Jun 7, 1994
Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
His work in television drama began with contributions to BBC television's The Wednesday Play anthology series from 1965, and continued for the next thirty years. His BBC TV serial The Singing Detective was particularly well received. This work and many of his television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social and often used themes and images from popular culture. A sufferer from psoriatic arthropathy for most of his adult life, Potter made regular public pronouncements on issues dear to him.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
imagination
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
religion
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
amazing
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
poetry
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
knowledge