I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. George Woodcock Read Quote
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. George Woodcock Read Quote
I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. George Woodcock Read Quote
I suppose I’m led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries – people whom I’ve admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. George Woodcock Read Quote
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn’t merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. George Woodcock Read Quote
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. George Woodcock Read Quote
What I’m going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It’s the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. George Woodcock Read Quote
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. George Woodcock Read Quote
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn’t want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor’s salary. George Woodcock Read Quote
