Anita Brookner Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

  Anita Brookner

  Real, Writing, Winning

• Great writers are the saints for the godless.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Writing, Saint

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

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Knows

• To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Moral, Negotiation

• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

• The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

  Anita Brookner

  Monday, Morning, Writing

  Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.84, Vintage

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

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Attention, Innocence

• Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Despair

• You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Dream, Mean

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