The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry. — 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 long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then… — 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
