Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“You always felt destined for stardom of one kind or another. But the fear that maybe that wasn't true wouldn't leave you… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Chalmers, like many of the English writers whom he then most admired, felt a strong natural sympathy with everything French. At Rouen… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
