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John Mortimer

I think being dead isn’t any problem. It’s the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

It’s barrister behaviour to say what you think will appeal to the person you’re talking to, whoever it happens to be, whether it’s true or not.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it’s a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

If you’re an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But I don’t know that I could bring myself to vote Tory.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they’re gone for good.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it’s about what someone else wants you to say.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the only way to treat children.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

My father was the doyen of the divorce barristers. He was an extremely erudite and very famous divorce barrister. So that, when I was a little boy in the nursery, instead of a story like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ I used to get ‘The Duchess and the Seven Correspondents.’

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it’s something rather like a curse that you’re born with.

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John Mortimer

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.

– John Mortimer

John Mortimer

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed.

– John Mortimer

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