Top 6 Brookner Novel Quotes
#1. I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
Rene Redzepi
#2. To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Anita Brookner
#3. When I'm by myself I revert to the times when I would forget about eating, stay up all night working, go until I felt an odd sensation I'd identify after some thought as hunger. Then I'd go through the refrigerator like a vacuum cleaner, sucking in whatever there was. Leftovers.
Margaret Atwood
#4. Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy.
Paul Rankin
#5. I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.
Sandra Tsing Loh
