Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead… — Linda Grant Action Copy Share Image
“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.” — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime… — Linda Grant Anything Copy Share Image
“I was the girl whose face fell when she saw a wrapped present in the shape of a box, perhaps a jigsaw… — Linda Grant Book Copy Share Image
“She had been maimed by an illness that was so far out of fashion it might have been a wartime recipe for… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.” — Linda Grant Books Copy Share Image
“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to… — Linda Grant Clothes Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Alive Copy Share Image
“And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which… — Linda Grant Brain damage Copy Share Image
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records. — Linda Grant Around Copy Share Image
“How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.” — Linda Grant Death Copy Share Image
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Bed Copy Share Image
I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I… — Linda Grant Any Copy Share Image
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant Campaigns Copy Share Image
Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the… — Linda Grant Blitz Copy Share Image
I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action,… — Linda Grant Action Copy Share Image
“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche… — Linda Grant Books Copy Share Image
“What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death… — Linda Grant Death Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because… — Linda Grant Because Copy Share Image
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to… — Linda Grant Autobiography Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Abortion Copy Share Image
“The glory of the library for me is how many of the books are in poor physical condition. They are books that… — Linda Grant Books Copy Share Image
“Without a physical presence on the shelves, the Kindle books seemed slightly insubstantial. There was no equivalent of the satisfying cracked spine.… — Linda Grant Books Copy Share Image
