Rec. #550: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #8

[Originally posted October 28, 2013.]

"True, I have started noting down the odd things people say. But contact with the actual creatures themselves I keep to a minimum."

--- Miss Shepherd,

The Lady in the Van, by Alan Bennett, 1989

Also by Alan Bennett: The Clothes They Stood Up In (Rec. #169), The History Boys (Rec. #115), and The Uncommon Reader (Rec. #260).