Melvyn Bragg Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced. — Melvyn Bragg

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened. — Melvyn Bragg

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. — Melvyn Bragg

The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English. — Melvyn Bragg

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. — Melvyn Bragg

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg