Related quotes
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.