Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
