Writer Quotes by Linda Grant

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…

— Linda Grant

“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”

— Linda Grant

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not…

— Linda Grant

“I was the girl whose face fell when she saw a wrapped present in the shape of a box, perhaps a jigsaw puzzle. Worst…

— Linda Grant

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

— Linda Grant

“She had been maimed by an illness that was so far out of fashion it might have been a wartime recipe for pink blancmange…

— Linda Grant

“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”

— Linda Grant

“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all…

— Linda Grant

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…

— Linda Grant

“And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take…

— Linda Grant

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

— Linda Grant

“How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.”

— Linda Grant

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by…

— Linda Grant

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing…

— Linda Grant