"At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf,……" — Ian Mcewan
"At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year."
Related Quotes
- And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.… — George Saunders
- Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival. — Rebecca West
- Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep. — Madonna Ciccone
- Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can… — Marcus Aurelius
- Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty! — Unknown Author
- If it was up to me I'd live on Earth for millions of years. Fuck eighty years! — Marlon Cortez Stanfield
- I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else — Josh Billings
- Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep. — Madonna
- I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year — William Makepeace Thackeray
- You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live… — Woody Allen
186 Quotes by Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan has 186 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
- Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
- Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
- But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
- Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
- What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
- All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture…
- Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
- Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
- What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.
- I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated…
- It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point.…
More Like Virginia Quotes
This quote is filed under Like Virginia Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: