Anita Brookner Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.”

“I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.”

“If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.”

“People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.”

“I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.”

“What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.”

“I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.”

“You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.”

“It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.”

“You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.”