Deborah Levy Quotes
- To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just…
- I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from…
- When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
- I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What…
- It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.
- Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world…
- She was not a poet. She was a poem.
- Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not…