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Here Alan has written more than sixty plays and in that, little has changed.

Alan Ayckbourn: In His Own Words

This page features a selection of quotes by Alan Ayckbourn pertaining to his entire life. Further quotes grouped by category can be accessed via the links to the right or above.

On being a writer...

"Story telling was part of my upbringing - probably the result during my early years of having a mother as a writer who also spent most of her time writing in order to feed our single parent family of two!

What choice did I have?" (2014)

His background...
"I am middle class. I was born middle class and was brought up in Sussex, the stepson of a bank manager so you cannot get more middle class than that." (1990)

Writer or director?
"I always consider myself as a director who writes rather than a writer who directs, because directing takes up so much of my time." (1988)

First steps into theatre...
"My first ambition was to be a journalist, but after having divorced my father, my mother eventually and wisely married her local bank manager, and I got