Gerald Brenan Quotes

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Gerald Brenan

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Gerald Brenan

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Gerald Brenan

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Gerald Brenan

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Gerald Brenan

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan