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
morning thinking ideas
In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
mistake solitude four
Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
artist moments
At moments we are all artists.
pain pleasure certain
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
mistake done belief
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
sleep men legs
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
jobs husband whole
Being a husband is a whole-time job.
mom mother clever
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
book people
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
giving evolution schemes
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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.
reading cutting reflection
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
book language reviews
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.