Basically particularly in Britain it’s
Basically, particularly in Britain, it’s a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
– Irvine Welsh
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- All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. – John Ruskin
- People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. – Robert Fogel
- I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called ‘SCI FI.’ The money is not life-changing, but it’s a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at
- “It’s far easier to write why something is terrible than why it’s good. If you’re reviewing a film and you decide “This is a movie I don’t like,” basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or
- Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. – Ben Shapiro
- Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison
- People say I don’t write books, I make Christmas presents. – Bryce Courtenay
- Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. – Jeremy Paxman
- If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn’t write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. – Laurence Housman
- Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. – Mortimer Adler