1.
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
Melvyn Bragg
2.
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
Melvyn Bragg
3.
To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.
Melvyn Bragg
4.
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.
Melvyn Bragg
5.
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
6.
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right
Melvyn Bragg
7.
More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.
Melvyn Bragg
