Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtbywas an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1898
flower book car
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
strong book writing
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
book sarcasm littles
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book ...
built death fortress future line lives safety violently war whose word youth
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
god life shall till work
God give me work, till my life shall end/And life, till my work is done.
dream want
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
time age finals
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
tragedy nuisance
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
teacher teaching government
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...
mean writing thinking
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.
suicide grief youth
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
voice opinion lecturer
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
regret affliction cures
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
progress too-much deals
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.