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
Anita Brookner quotes about
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.
library problem behavior
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
god writing saint
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
dance thinking dancing
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
literature drs ruined
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
light sun grey
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
women people use
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
youth sometimes misspent-youth
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
lonely passion animal
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.
monday morning writing
The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
selfish reason selfish-reasons
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
thinking language feels
I think you always feel braver in another language.
interruptions
Death is only a small interruption.
way break company
When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.