Humphrey Carpenter Quotes

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

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Nice, Magic, Tricks

  Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK

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• Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Lying, Book, Form

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• 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.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Stars, Moving, Ideas

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

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