I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.


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A. N. WILSON
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
A. N. WILSON
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a...
A. N. WILSON
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a f...
A. N. WILSON
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...
A. N. WILSON
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. WILSON
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. WILSON
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly str...
A. N. WILSON
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George...
A. N. WILSON
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want Preside...
A. N. WILSON
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, o...
A. N. WILSON
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes r...
A. N. WILSON
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers i...
A. N. WILSON
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. WILSON
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
EDWARD N. LORENZ
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy device...
NEWTON N. MINOW
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when ...
FRANK N. IKARD
So many thinkers, so few doers.
NABIL N. JAMAL
A key that opens many locks is worth buying.
A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.
NABIL N. JAMAL
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
JOHN N. MITCHELL
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which...
A. N. WILSON
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
GERALD. N. WEISKOTT
There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to ...
JOSé N. HARRIS
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
JOSé N. HARRIS
Why start something that you won’t see to the end? You need to finish what you start!
NABIL N. JAMAL
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes...
HERBERT N. CASSON
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very sa...
A. N. WILSON
We are what we believe we are
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, r...
EDWARD N. HURLEY
The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
N. H. MOOS
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of...
HERBERT N. CASSON
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
N. F. SIMPSON
I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
W. N. EWER
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked wh...
ELAINE N. ARON
Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides wi...
V. N. VOLOSINOV
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
HOSHANG N. AKHTAR
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON
Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outs...
V. N. VOLOSINOV
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is di...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
Every winner has scars.
HERBERT N. CASSON
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...
HERBERT N. CASSON