Susan Wallace quotes

“Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.”
-- Susan Wallace

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“Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we miss you so much.”
-- Susan Wallace

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“Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.”
-- Susan Wallace

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“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.