Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Carter-Pearcewho published as Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 May 1940
taken world commodity
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
reality reason surrealism
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
funny humor people
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
life-and-death matter literature
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
humanity rags scarecrow
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
laughter children laughing
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
sunshine california contracts
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
eggs salt argument
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
book reading writing
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
literature pins hypothesis
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
men two giving
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?
book writing ideas
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
culture language-and-power instruments
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
angel thinking culture
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.