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> [No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/no-new-reader-however-charitable-could-open-fifty-shades-of-grey/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

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## More by Anthony Lane

> [I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/i-do-have-one-very-brutal-writing-ritual-if-i-m-working-in-the/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/cookbooks-it-should-be-stressed-do-not-belong-in-the-kitchen-at-all/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [“Youth is a clearer witness to the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/youth-is-a-clearer-witness-to-the-world/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/we-happen-upon-ourselves-when-nothing-much-happens-to-us-and-we-are/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-is-now-fourteen-and-while-he-gives/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/the-general-opinion-of-revenge-of-the-sith-seems-to-be-that-it-marks/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/the-obvious-precedent-for-beijing-2008-was-the-berlin-olympics-in/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/no-new-reader-however-charitable-could-open-fifty-shades-of-grey/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/children-viewed-from-one-angle-are-philosophy-in-motion/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/that-is-why-the-ideal-literary-diet-consists-of-trash-and-classics/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [“There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/there-s-no-two-ways-about-it-tolkien-fans-are-a-funny-bunch-i-should/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [ There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of \[Nathaniel\] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/there-is-more-suspense-more-dramatic-torque-in-one-page-of-nathaniel/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/we-are-not-merely-tempered-and-schooled-by-failure-but-compelled-in/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/still-there-remains-so-much-to-relish-and-remember/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

> [That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-lane/that-s-the-trouble-with-cookbooks-like-sex-education-and-nuclear/)

[Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-lane/)

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