Christopher Fowler I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child. – Christopher Fowler Author Quotes Child Quotes Met Quotes Read Quotes Voraciously Quotes The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs’ Home of books.
Marisa Miller Leather is always sexy, and you have to wear leather when you ride a bike. It’s more for protection, but it also gets you some style points, I think. – Marisa Miller
Lawrence Osborne Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That’s the English class thing that is much weaker now. – Lawrence Osborne
Ian Hamilton Finlay I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
Don Miguel Ruiz Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. – Don Miguel Ruiz
Rob Page You don’t go from being friends and work colleagues, working in a close environment, to then not speaking. – Rob Page
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