Really Quote by Gerald Brenan

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

— Gerald Brenan

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

— Gerald Brenan

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

— Gerald Brenan

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

— Gerald Brenan

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

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

— Gerald Brenan

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

— Gerald Brenan

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

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

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

— Gerald Brenan