Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgeraldwas a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 December 1916
believe writing hands
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.
safe morality guides
Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
strong mean opportunity
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
helping-others people drug
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
thinking perception persons
To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.