Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenterwas an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 August 1946
believe came flew grew rabbit
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?
stars moving ideas
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
lying book form
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
nice magic tricks
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.