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Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: March 9, 1892 Date of Death: June 2, 1962 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Vita Sackville-West Related Authors: Aldous Huxley E. M. Forster Samuel Richardson Charles Dickens Henry Fielding Thomas Hardy William Makepeace Thackeray Mark Haddon |
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. Vita Sackville-West I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. Vita Sackville-West Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. Vita Sackville-West Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. Vita Sackville-West The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. Vita Sackville-West There are no signposts in the sea. Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Vita Sackville-West What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. Vita Sackville-West Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. Vita Sackville-West |
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