How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is! – James Payn
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. – James Payn
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. – James Payn
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. – James Payn
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, Oh, you might want to read In Cold Blood because theyre talking about you for Capote, but the scripts with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment. So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. – Toby Jones