To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
From J. B. Priestley
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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