Quotes by Blishen, Edward

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptine >>

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with diffi >>

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a me >>

Quotations about Editing and Editors

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm >>

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you thin >>

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form >>

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

Blishen, Edward