“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the… — Richard Hughes Children Copy Share Image
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide… — Richard Hughes Babies Copy Share Image
“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.” — Richard Hughes Life Copy Share Image
“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the… — Richard Hughes Nature Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. — Richard Hughes Age Copy Share Image
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children.… — Richard Hughes Art Copy Share Image
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who… — Richard Hughes Criminal law Copy Share Image
“Emily and Rachel had their hair cut short, and were allowed to do everything the boys did - to climb trees, swim,… — Richard Hughes Hair cut Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Answer Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have… — Richard Hughes Children Copy Share Image
“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. — Richard Hughes Books Copy Share Image
