What did Josephine Tey mean by: Most people’s first books are their best anyways. It’s the one they wanted most to write. - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland Copy
+ A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josephine Tey, Independence, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Josephine Tey, Accounts, Book, Truth, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josephine Tey, Education, Women, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Truth is often terribly thin, don’t you think? Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Josephine Tey, Truth, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josephine Tey, Gambling, Horse, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Josephine Tey, Fasting, Imagination, Logic, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josephine Tey, Inevitable, Unfair, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
+ Nothing great ever came out of common sense. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Josephine Tey, Common, Common Sense, 0 - Josephine Tey Author · Scotland
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
