D. H. Lawrence
If it doesn’t absorb you, if it isn’t any fun, don’t do it.Collection: Fun
I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.Collection: Reading
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one’s friends – give me the country.Collection: Country
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality – same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.Collection: Strong