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
liars lying men
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
men waiting romance
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
love moving men
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
english-historian life men
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
interruptions
Death is only a small interruption.
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.
selfish reason selfish-reasons
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
strong belief satire
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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.
wicked fiction moral
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
women thinking good-woman
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
thinking language feels
I think you always feel braver in another language.
husband self important
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.