Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
Anita Brookner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Nowhere
Analysis
Leads
Interesting
Art
Form
Self
Introspection
More quotes by Anita Brookner
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
Anita Brookner
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Anita Brookner
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
Anita Brookner
The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
Anita Brookner
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner
Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Anita Brookner
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead.
Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
I think you always feel braver in another language.
Anita Brookner
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
Anita Brookner
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brookner
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
Anita Brookner
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
Anita Brookner
