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
book writing years
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
writing hair play
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
writing would-be ifs
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
pregnancy writing might
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
beautiful writing stills
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
writing odds challenges
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
writing ideas instruments
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
delight nobody realize relief reporting reports school thank
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
society
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
begun elaborate less means whisper
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
intelligent men people
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
stars food vintage
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
ideas two mind
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.
husband block men
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.