“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.” — Fay Weldon Happiness Copy Share Image
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. — Fay Weldon Affliction Copy Share Image
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside… — Fay Weldon Desire Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Autobiography Copy Share Image
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. — Fay Weldon Beauty Copy Share Image
“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Fiction Copy Share Image
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“This is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next.… — Fay Weldon Eating Copy Share Image
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting… — 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… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching… — Fay Weldon Death Copy Share Image
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“What happens now is that if some unfortunate man goes to bed with some woman, overnight there's a divorce. He thinks and… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit… — Fay Weldon Habits Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I am always concerned when people, finding out that I am a writer, apologise and say, “I’m not much of a reader… — Fay Weldon Book Copy Share Image
“I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try… — Fay Weldon Books Copy Share Image
“Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made… — Fay Weldon Food Copy Share Image
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring… — Fay Weldon Husbands Copy Share Image
“She described how Camus’s aphorism “One must imagine Sisyphus happy” helps her fight back against unproductive feelings of meaninglessness. If we consider,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope. — Fay Weldon Expectations Copy Share Image
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said. — Fay Weldon Expectations Copy Share Image
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.” — Fay Weldon Beauty Copy Share Image
“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank,… — Fay Weldon Books Copy Share Image
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
