Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson
Margaret Storm Jamesonwas an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 January 1891
disease violence novelists
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
censorship sadistic traps
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
cities invisible ifs
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
insomnia impossible moments
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
loyalty law space
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
nerves matter cruelty
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
gestures next generations
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
novelists moments stills
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
vanity self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
speak-the-truth draws exhilarating
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
rotten literature language
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
lasts emotion surprise
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.