Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBEwas a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 October 1889
art names theatre
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
born
I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
death people used
As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.
lunch dating lovers
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
love sex pain
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
men years doctors
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
horse people velvet
I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
flower writing oddities
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
daughter fathers-day baby
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.