Quotes by Brookner, Anita

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves fla >>

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a pub >>

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being o >>

Quotations about Fiction

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted wit >>

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full eno >>

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves >>

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Brookner, Anita