Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.
—Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, 1989
Posted on May 16, 2000 at 1:10 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
If you're a writer, a real writer, you're a descendent of those medieval storytellers who used to go into the square of a town and spread a little mat on the ground and sit on it and beat on a bowl and say, 'If you give me a copper coin I will tell you a golden tale.' If the storyteller had what it took, he ... told them a golden tale until it got to the most exciting point and then he passed the bowl again.
—Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, The Paris Review, Spring 1989
Posted on August 30, 1999 at 8:34 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight.
—Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, 1989
Posted on December 8, 2000 at 9:26 AM
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