Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall Down. These… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image