Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. "
George Woodcock
Young
Believe
Away
Related Quotes:
" I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. "
George Woodcock
Questions
Always
School
" It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions. "
George Woodcock
Life
Great
Job
" It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. "
George Woodcock
Even
Sort
Same
" You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. "
George Woodcock
You
Government
Free
" They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned. "
George Woodcock
Leave
Understand
Go
" What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. "
George Woodcock
Me
Key
Going
" Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. "
George Woodcock
Good
Sometimes
Small
" I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. "
George Woodcock
Freedom
Connection
City
" I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. "
George Woodcock
Like
Tell
Something
" I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. "
George Woodcock
You
Creative
Out
" My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. "
George Woodcock
School
Spirit
Early
" Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. "
George Woodcock
Man
Hated
You
" I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. "
George Woodcock
How
Man
World
" When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. "
George Woodcock
Often
Way
Very
" My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. "
George Woodcock
Over
Become
Fact
" I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. "
George Woodcock
Want
Go
Literature