Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner, CBEwas a British award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth16 July 1938
book want company
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
love friendship accountability
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
library problem behavior
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
literature drs ruined
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
dance thinking dancing
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
god writing saint
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
writing knows
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
love happiness sadness
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
real writing winning
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
relationship real love-is
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
aunts brought everybody family lived polish uncles
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.
people seems
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
doubt married six
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.
I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.