L.P. Hartley
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.Collection: Writing
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.Collection: Country
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.Collection: Oysters
You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.Collection: Angel
My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.Collection: Dream
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collectionsCollection: Would Be
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.Collection: New York