L.P. Hartley Professions : Novelist Born : December 30, 1895 Died : December 13, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by L.P. Hartley It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about. L.P. Hartley writers-and-writing writing feels The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley future memories country Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. L.P. Hartley oysters realizing speak My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk. L.P. Hartley discarded dream reality You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels. L.P. Hartley fallen angel thinking To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment! L.P. Hartley Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections L.P. Hartley short-story would-be stories Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life. L.P. Hartley romance new-york views Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
