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
art book reading
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
book people
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
book language reviews
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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.
children book eye
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
book reading men
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public
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Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment
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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.