Laurence housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this...

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.