77 Quotes by j.b. priestley

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

The real lost souls don’t wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don’t give their parents a moment’s worry.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!