"I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this."

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Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics

E. Nesbit

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.”
“It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.”
“About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.”
“Use love, use love as a bridge.”
“An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.”
“What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.”
“The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”
“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”

Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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