Me Quote by Anita Brookner Download Open image “I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.” — Anita Brookner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Me Middle class Novelist
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's… — David Means Copy Share Image
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I knew that… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
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I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate. — George Murray Copy Share Image
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If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
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That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I do whatever entertains me. If it entertains me to throw flowers halfway across the room, then that's what I'll do. — Kevin Owens Copy Share Image
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