Humphrey Carpenter Quotes

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  • Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

    Lying   Book   Form  
  • The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

    Nice   Magic   Tricks  
    Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK
  • You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

    Stars   Moving   Ideas  
    Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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