Philip Sington Quotes

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• The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
• I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required.…
• I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
• To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
• One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
• One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank…
• I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
• Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it…
• The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the…
• And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For…
• All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in…
• We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

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