Literary Birthday – 19 April – Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes Quotes

1. Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
2. All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them.
3. Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
4. A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say.

Richard Hughes was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels, and plays. He is the author of A High Wind in Jamaica, which is a minor classic of 20th-century English literature. His children’s books include The Spider’s Palace and Gertrude’s Child. Hughes was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946.

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by Amanda Patterson

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