'What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.'
Quotes by John Mortimer
'I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.'
'There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.'
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.'