Become Quote by George Woodcock

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

— George Woodcock

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

— George Woodcock

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

— George Woodcock

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the…

— George Woodcock

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely…

— George Woodcock

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that…

— George Woodcock

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got…

— George Woodcock

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to…

— George Woodcock

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half…

— George Woodcock

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all…

— George Woodcock

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand…

— George Woodcock