Angela Young > Angela's Quotes

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“All stories are love stories.”
― Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

“We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .”
― Disney Publishing Worldwide, Saving Mr Banks the Official Multi Touch Book

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”
― Angela Young

“I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.”
― William Golding