Jane Gardam While writing a novel, I don’t read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. – Jane Gardam Engrossed Quotes Fiction Quotes Read Quotes Writing Quotes I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool. In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style ‘is a poor thing, but it is my own.’
Margery Allingham When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don’t you think? – Margery Allingham
Sven-Goran Eriksson No-one wants to finish a job badly. If you know that you are going to finish your job in six months, then you want to finish well. – Sven-Goran Eriksson
Dan Flavin My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. – Dan Flavin
Ella Wheeler Wilcox When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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