I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's … - David Starkey

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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

David Starkey

I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in remaining visible in the online world. That said, I'm personally turned off by writers' blogs that do nothing but sing their own accomplishments.

Accomplishment, Accomplishments, Important, Nothing, Tenacity, Writing

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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend. " Writing should be a way out of despair.

Coffee, Melancholy, Person, Shadow, Thinking, Writing

Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency, one language and a single unified representative national administration. Never again in England would sovereignty descend to the merely regional level. Never again would the idea of England and the unity of England ever be challenged.

Age, Country, Created, Dark, Idea, Kings

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,. . You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

Church, Fact, Mean, Moral, Religious

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

Feelings, People, Reading

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

Forward, Henry V, Kings, Modest, Proposition, Viii