Clive James Want Quotations

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.