J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM, was an English author, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator, man of letters and broadcaster...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 September 1894
real facts fiction
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
happiness children delight
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
blessing joy count-your-blessings
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
communication mean talking
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
travel time holiday
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
differences politics way
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
light shadow world
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith