Quote

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Storm Jameson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
Ambitions
Ambition
Writing
Chimney
Chimneys
Blazing

More quotes by Storm Jameson

Image
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson
Image
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
Storm Jameson
Image
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
Storm Jameson
Image
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
Storm Jameson
Image
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
Storm Jameson
Image
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
Storm Jameson
Image
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
Storm Jameson
Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
Storm Jameson
Image
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
Storm Jameson
Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Storm Jameson
Image
To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.
Storm Jameson
Image
There is only one world the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Storm Jameson
Image
invaders always destroy libraries.
Storm Jameson
Image
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Storm Jameson
Image
Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
Storm Jameson
Image
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.
Storm Jameson
Image
A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.
Storm Jameson
Image
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
Storm Jameson
Image
If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.
Storm Jameson
Image
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
Storm Jameson