'Our greatest living writer'
- Clive Davis, The Times
'He still has the sharpest pen in Britain ... Bennett is at his best when flirting with indecency ... mesmerising and unbearably sad'
- Daily Telegraph
'There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett'
- David Sexton, Evening Standard
'Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be'
- John Carey, Sunday Times
'His stories improve with each telling ... Perhaps it is [Bennett's] long experience as a dramatist that lends his prose such perfect timing'
- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday