William Thomas Beckford famous quotes

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I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.
-- William Thomas Beckford

#Writing #Moon #Journey
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.
-- William Thomas Beckford

#Fiction #Half #Literature

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sunâ€™s broken heart, power to restore the moonâ€™s vision too.
When you look at the Moon, you think, â€˜Iâ€™m really small. What are my problems?â€™ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

William Thomas Beckford famous quotes

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