There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating. — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
“But I do know a kind of madness that lies low in the mind, half-buried in consciousness, which lives in parallel to sanity, and… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters. — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
