"Write as often as possible, not with the……" — J. B. Priestley

"Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument."

— J. B. Priestley

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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that…
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a…
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds…
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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More Idea Quotes

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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no… — Lance Armstrong
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium… — Antonin Artaud
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I… — Chinua Achebe
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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