Raymond Williams Quotes


The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.


Citations

Williams, Raymond. The Long Revolution. Chatto & Windus, 1961.

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Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
  • Born: August 31, 1921
  • Died: January 26, 1988
  • Nationality: Welsh
  • Profession: Novelist

Raymond Henry Williams, born in Wales, was a socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.