Ben Elton Quotations

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.