It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.
A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life… . He is not one of them… . In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental found...
Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably try to remember the size of the first printing, then double it. If you’re the author...
Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners have it worse, but for sheer, numbing, endless (I do not, deliberately, say mindle...
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other w...
Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.
Lawrence's detractors, then and now, still argue that this was merely a pinprick in a sideshow of a sideshow compared with the western front, but it in fact was a modest first effort at a new kind of...
It is worth noting that the desert provides every kind of torment-- heat, cold, rain, flash floods, windstorms, biting insects, and sandstorms, sometimes all on the same day.
Lawrence: Clayton, I've decided to go off alone to Damascus, hoping to get killed on the way: for all sakes try and clear this show up before it goes further. We are calling them to fight for us on a...
Lawrence's concern about the loss of twenty Arabs may seem odd during a war in which British war dead would exceed 750,000, but he felt strongly that Our men were not materials, like soldiers, but fri...
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. He had an instinctive understanding of the fact that the British as a people dislike boasting, and pride themselves not on victory but on bein...
And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it’s done well, and something of a mystery as well. Nobody teaches it, of course; you’re born to it, the way a good surgeon...