Blogging Bert

It’s difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly, it’s just an athletic manner of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

Virginia Wade

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Dorothy Parker

The human race is guided by myth as much as by logic, and mythology explains people to themselves more vividly than economics.

A.N. Wilson

The English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

Ruth Rendell

History is about arrogance, vanity and vapidity.  Who better than me to present it?

David Starkey

As I grow older and older / And totter towards the tomb / I find I care less and less / Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O’Connor

It’s amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make

Eoin Colfer

This quote is especially aimed at the two women and one man sitting by me on the tube yesterday who had voices  that could scratch glass, continually spoke over each other, and who were pathetically desperate for the attention which they were unable to give each other.  The post’s image above refers to the reaction of  the other people in the carriage having to endure this.