Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSLwas a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1913
needs secretary processors
No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
discovery civilization two
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?
christian reading color
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.
art book reading
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
writing tasks difficult
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
country insanity dull
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
past mirrors order
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
jobs doors giving
And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.
people physicians disease
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.
wise blue hands
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
people world feels
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
quality way inexperience
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
jobs house kind
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.
horse imagination flying
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.