Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennettwas an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1867
time needs way
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
reading cutting reflection
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
book language reviews
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
mean self aquariums
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
real men effort
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
long literature world
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
hope media long
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
men doors bored
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
confused thinking details
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
giving-up lying effort
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.
book reading cutting
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.
past yield people
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
war years people
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
inspiration ruts advantage
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.