Melvyn Bragg : (8)

" Film has changed the way we look at the past. " - Melvyn Bragg

" I’m not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers – even those who came from it. " - Melvyn Bragg

" A lot of the novels that I’ve really enjoyed in my life, whether it’s Tolstoy’s ‘Cossacks,’ or ‘Sons and Lovers’ or ‘Jude the Obscure’ or ‘David Copperfield’ or ‘Herzog,’ have an autobiographical spine. " - Melvyn Bragg

" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. " - Melvyn Bragg

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. " - Melvyn Bragg

" I don’t feel inferior in the slightest to anybody – or superior to anybody, let’s get that clear. But I do feel different. " - Melvyn Bragg

" I’ve been writing since I was 19. " - Melvyn Bragg

" Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn’t say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it’s getting people nowhere. " - Melvyn Bragg