Arnold Bennett Quotes


If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.


Citations

Bennett, Arnold. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day. George H. Doran Company, 1910, p. 41.

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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
  • Born: May 27, 1867
  • Died: March 27, 1931
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist, Playwright, Journalist

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and briefly ran, the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s.