Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings.
the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today..
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was….
There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, ….
I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it..
Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness..
Very few of us are what we seem..
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and o….
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ….
He laughs best who laughs at the end..
It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterward….
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world..
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy..
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave..
Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed..
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one..
People who can be very good can be very bad too..
Things never come when they are expected..
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself..
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it..
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite..