You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want,… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image