Frank Macdonald

“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“It was the kind of library
he had only read about in books.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader