Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
writing giving doe
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
writing negative novel
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
spring writing men
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
writing maturity expectations
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
book reading writing
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
spring real writing
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
bad busy french-writer growing habit man time
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
compassion french-writer happiness naturally solid
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
defects frankly qualities recognize talk
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities
business quickly talk
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly
mind different generations
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
strong women true-woman
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
women lying perfection
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
women rain wife
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.