I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it? — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
