Quotes by Davies, Robertson

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven sympho >>

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures >>

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and >>

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. >>

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write >>

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I will tell you a story, and then he passes the hat.

Davies, Robertson