Top 29 Quotes by Tom Paulin

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.