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“Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.”
Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
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“I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!”
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“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.”
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“Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes”
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“It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.”
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“I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.”
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“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”
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“Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.”
