Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkingtonwas an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 July 1869
CityIndianapolis, IN
CountryUnited States of America
believe book writing
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...
men sheep fields
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
christmas children holiday
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
gone old-time
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
romance youth imagine
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
silly names mouths
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
boys punishment may
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
desire safe males
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
boyhood natural invention
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
love husband wife
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
heart people heaven
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
fun fool pretending
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
school boys years
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
personality style doe
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.