Top 11 Patricia Duncker Quotes
#1. The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote.
That's what my writing was. Messages in bottles.
Patricia Duncker
#2. You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
Patricia Duncker
#3. And that is the loneliness of seeing a different world from that of the people around you. Their lives remain remote from yours. You can see the gulf and they can't.
Patricia Duncker
#4. The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
Patricia Duncker
#5. They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
Patricia Duncker
#8. I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees.
Patricia Duncker
#9. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.
Patricia Duncker
#10. We articulate our fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.
Patricia Duncker
#11. But ... if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted?
He glittered at me for a moment, then said, I would rather be mad.
Patricia Duncker
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