Best Anita Brookner Quotes
- To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. Anything Else
- Writing has freed me from the despair of living. Despair
- The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain.… Always Go
- Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. Belief
- Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. Baffle
- Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Been
- And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Each
- I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. Book
- That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. Faded
- Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Happens
- Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. All
- I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and… All
- I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because… Able
- People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent,… Always Serious
- It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. Aesop
- Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. Care
- In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you. Course
- I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi Alibi