"The only rule I have found to have……" — John Mortimer

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

— John Mortimer

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45 Quotes by John Mortimer

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,…
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and…
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the…
Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely…
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the…

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