Storm Jameson Quotes
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.