Helen Garner I like poking my nose into other people’s lives. – Helen Garner Lives Quotes Nose Quotes Peoples Quotes Poking Quotes But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction… so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually.
Edward Zwick Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view. – Edward Zwick
Howard Fineman When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. – Howard Fineman
Gareth Edwards It’s a great Disney tradition, isn’t it? For every single character to die in all their movies. – Gareth Edwards
Lydia Davis If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. – Lydia Davis
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