Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
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At that time I had no notion that I should ever come to live in Somerset - to live actually within the range of what then lay before me.Laurence Housman
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
Laurence Housman
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence Housman
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Laurence Housman
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
Laurence Housman
In my fourteenth year I had gone up to London for the first time, to see as many of the sights as could be got into a fortnight.
Laurence Housman
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