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Society of Authors - Works to protect the rights and further the interests of authors in the United Kingdom. FAQ, membership information, news, and publications.
British Council Literature Department - Promotes contemporary and innovative work from the UK to audiences around the world. Biographies, reviews, critical essays, audio and flash poems, magazine and events.
Mslexia - Print magazine for women who write. About exploring creativity and getting into print. With advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions, events, courses, grants; new poetry and prose.
English Literature Course from the London School of Journalism - Home study course covers literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. Course summary. English literature resources and essays.
The Royal Society of Literature - Literary organisation. Information on lectures, readings and campaigns on behalf of the writer and the written word, prizes and magazine.
Welsh Books Council - National body funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and committed to promoting reading and literacy in Wales. Information on services, best sellers with a Welsh interest, reviews and book lists. Welsh and English.
Lit-Net - Promotes literature in the West Midlands and offers services to readers, writers and librarians. Provides details of local writing groups and a discussion area.
Beatscene - Magazine which documents and highlights the writers, poets, musicians and artists of the Beat Generation. Published from Coventry.
Bloomsbury - Publisher provides catalogue of books, advice for writers, readers' club and ezine with articles and extracts from books.
London Review of Books online - Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers.
No Mean City - Glasgow based online magazine publishing literature, stories, novels and poetry.
The Reader - Printed literary magazine publishing poetry, short fiction and articles about literature and reading. Publishes beginners alongside established writers. Online shop, latest edition and subscriptions.
Richmond Review - Independent online magazine with regular contributors from the London publishing scene. Poetry, short stories, critical reviews and articles.
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Literature Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Literature Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Literature A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Literature "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Literature There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Literature "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Literature "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Literature Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Literature "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Literature Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Literature We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Literature Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Literature MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Literature There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Literature If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Literature blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Literature I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Literature I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Literature "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Literature A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Literature Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Literature
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