Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.
The War will leave none of us as it found us.
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
when you think you've got hold of a genius. . . you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.
Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.