Richard E Hughes/biography

Famous quotes containing the words richard e, hughes and/or biography:

    If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness
    When everything is as it was in my childhood
    Violent, vivid, and of infinite possibility:
    That the sun and the moon broke over my head.
    Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)

    Stilled legendary depth:
    It was as deep as England: it held
    Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
    That past nightfall I dared not cast
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)