Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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