Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes. Paul Horgan More Quotes by Paul Horgan More Quotes From Paul Horgan A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it. Paul Horgan history way past The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. Paul Horgan important writing book There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy. Paul Horgan writing night thinking Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. Paul Horgan irony cynicism doe It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god. Paul Horgan look always mortals god Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor. Paul Horgan me mother beautiful father There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context. Paul Horgan person know alive want The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past. Paul Horgan true never artist past He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself. Paul Horgan belong out who deserve The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times. Paul Horgan those find valuable vision I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think. Paul Horgan thing think me one-thing King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer. Paul Horgan king sunshine fire winter In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction. Paul Horgan than little more love
