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
future lead proud wonder
One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be.
adjective books books-and-reading fun means
I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
dinner great kids rings
Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.
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.
humanity rags scarecrow
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
hoping-for-the-best worst
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
anticipation pleasure greater
Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.
possibility-of-change historical enemy
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
parent anxiety soul
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
dolls details language
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
faces facts unseen
So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.
principles imagine
His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
shadow universe
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
acts-of-love chamber resemblance
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.