Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
