Bennett on Bennett - Writing

'Yet another fruitless morning at the typewriter.' Most writers - Philip Larkin, Graham Greene among them - became far more famous when they weren't doing it than when they were. And when a writer does manage to squeeze out a piece of work, can he or she be identified lurking in the prose? In this amusing and revealing monologue, Alan Bennett examines the delicate balance between writing and staring out of the window.