Patricia Duncker Quotes

• You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

  Patricia Duncker

  Say Anything, Said, Ifs

  Patricia Duncker (1996). “Hallucinating Foucault”

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• You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

  Patricia Duncker

  Writing, Firsts, Desperation

  Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

  Patricia Duncker

  Priceless, Expensive

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• The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

  Patricia Duncker

  Love Is, Reader

  Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.

  Patricia Duncker

  Children, Passion, Caring

  Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”

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