"So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience."

-- Miles Kington

#Laughter Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
“I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.”

Source : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”
“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.”
“You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”
“Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.”
“I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.”
“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.”

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