Quote

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Fay Weldon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Hope
Inspirational
Happens
Nothing
Trying
Life
Hopeful
Unexpected
Awareness

More quotes by Fay Weldon

Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Fay Weldon
Image
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
Fay Weldon
Image
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
Fay Weldon
Image
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
Fay Weldon
Image
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon
Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
Fay Weldon
Image
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
Fay Weldon
Image
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
Fay Weldon
Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
Image
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
Fay Weldon
Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
Fay Weldon
Image
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Fay Weldon
Image
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
Fay Weldon
Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
Fay Weldon
Image
If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
Fay Weldon
Image
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
Fay Weldon
Image
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
Image
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Fay Weldon
Image
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Fay Weldon
Image
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
Fay Weldon