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
reading offending fiction
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.
book reading writing
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
book reading writing
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
adjective books books-and-reading fun means
I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
care requires
I see this every day. If it's not a hand-out, if it's not free, if it requires a little work, they don't care for it.
dinner great kids rings
Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.
europe names nostalgia
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
father goddesses gods mother notion silly
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
bit experience far nicer people problem refer somebody useful workplace
It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.
blizzard coming dance-and-dancing danced outcasts watched
They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.
mother istanbul skylines
The kind of power mothers have is enormous.
mind lovely age
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
share reciprocity sensations
Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.
mother class wife
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.