What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation. Colin Wilson Read Quote
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow – because ‘oh well, it’s just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person’ – what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. Colin Wilson Read Quote
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it’s the feeling there’s something basically wrong with human beings. Colin Wilson Read Quote
I’m basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren’t interested in ideas. The English, I’m afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson Read Quote
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you’re being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. Colin Wilson Read Quote
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson Read Quote
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson Read Quote
I’ve always been a pretty hard worker. That’s how I’ve written over a hundred books. Colin Wilson Read Quote
If I’d stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. Colin Wilson Read Quote
