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
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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.
writing echoes oneself
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
artist moments
At moments we are all artists.
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.
birthday men years
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
heart cost waste
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
mother sex joy
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
art book reading
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
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.
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.
jobs husband whole
Being a husband is a whole-time job.