There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
