Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — 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
