“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall Down. These lines were attributed to Conway Power (the name she generally appended to her poetry, even in… — 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
“….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
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
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share
“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
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
