Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennettwas an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1867
creativity artist soul
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
friendship god judging
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
world opinion strange
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
reality heaven secret
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
long literature world
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
home mind problem
Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
morning time wake-up
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
real men effort
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
knowledge learning soul
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
reading people theatre
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
hope media long
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
men may literature
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
true-friend achievement likes
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
essentials efficient-work method
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.