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"I really don’t know where this person learned to write. It is so overwritten and also completely flat! Every sentence entered by a character is accompanied either by a description of their facial expression when they say it, or something that they are doing. In the two page scene I just read, a guy has picked up and put down a chair SIX TIMES. I am fascinated now." — 20 hours, 31 min ago
"I really don’t know where this person learned to write. It is so overwritten and also completely flat! Every sentence entered by a character is accompanied either by a description of their facial expression when they say it, or something that they are doing. In the two page scene I just read, a guy has picked up and put down a chair SIX TIMES. I am fascinated now." — 20 hours, 31 min ago
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"Fairly interesting but I am very tired of the author constantly inserting stuff about “she didn’t need feminism back then, she just got on with it“ and so forth. And “you couldn’t do that now because criticism culture“ about stuff like sexual-harassment and driving home drunk. I don’t know, those things don’t seem like sweetly nostalgic things that make me want to return to the past." — Aug 14, 2021 09:38PM
"Fairly interesting but I am very tired of the author constantly inserting stuff about “she didn’t need feminism back then, she just got on with it“ and so forth. And “you couldn’t do that now because criticism culture“ about stuff like sexual-harassment and driving home drunk. I don’t know, those things don’t seem like sweetly nostalgic things that make me want to return to the past." — Aug 14, 2021 09:38PM
“I never knew what an extraordinary thing it could be to write a book. In the first place, the characters take the bit between their jaws and canter off with you into places you don't want and never catered for. I had smugly intended my book to be about a family rather like ours, but, lud love you! it's already turned into an account of a barmaid's career in an Edgware Road pub, and I can't squeeze us in anywhere!
Odd things happen, too. I had called my pub, 'The Three Feathers,' and counted on there being heaps of pubs in Edgware Road, not called that, but looking a bit like my description. Before we left home, I went down Edgware Road to investigate, and found my pub, even down to the old-fashioned phonograph on the table in the upstairs sitting-room. And I thought, 'I built that place.”
― The Brontës Went to Woolworths
Odd things happen, too. I had called my pub, 'The Three Feathers,' and counted on there being heaps of pubs in Edgware Road, not called that, but looking a bit like my description. Before we left home, I went down Edgware Road to investigate, and found my pub, even down to the old-fashioned phonograph on the table in the upstairs sitting-room. And I thought, 'I built that place.”
― The Brontës Went to Woolworths
“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”
― On Stranger Tides
― On Stranger Tides
“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath or sleeping, or eating bread - absolute necessities which one never thinks of in terms of appreciation. And we all sat waiting for her to say that she had so little time for reading, before ruling her right out for ever and ever.”
― The Brontës Went to Woolworths
― The Brontës Went to Woolworths
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Mama says mine is a night mind.”
― Random Acts of Senseless Violence
― Random Acts of Senseless Violence
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