William Collins Quotes

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
- William Collins
(Related: Democracy, Feminism, Words)

"By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung."
- William Collins

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"
- William Collins
(Related: Country, Rest, Sleep, Wishes)

"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."
- William Collins
(Related: Humor)

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
- William Collins
(Related: Numbers)

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
- William Collins
(Related: Humor, Poetry, Nothing, Shakespeare)

"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."
- William Collins
(Related: Work, Writer, Wrong)

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."
- William Collins
(Related: Fault, Mistrust)