Winifred Holtby Quotes

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Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't — yet...

Winifred Holtby

The conductor obeyed all too literally the proverbial mandate. His right hand rarely knew what his left hand did...

Winifred Holtby

She was suffering acutely, for it was her instinct to give people what they wanted, and there was nothing that she could do for Evelyn.

Winifred Holtby

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Winifred Holtby

Contrary to popular superstition, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.

Winifred Holtby

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

Winifred Holtby

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

Born: June 23, 1898

Died: September 29, 1935 (aged 37)

Bio: Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

Known for:

South Riding
The crowded street (1924)
Anderby Wold (1923)
The Land of Green Ginger (1927)
Virginia Woolf (1932)

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