Diana Athill Quotes

#1. Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Diana Athill

#2. What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Marie Lu

#3. I think I finally fell in love with NY.. I miss it already !

Chelsea Wolfe

#4. She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

Diana Athill

#5. Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Reed Hastings

#6. We must always remember that we are only midwives - if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.

Diana Athill

#7. You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

Ethan Embry

#8. My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.

Diana Athill

#9. An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.

Diana Athill

#10. Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

Diana Athill

#11. Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present.

Diana Athill

#13. Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

Diana Athill

#14. I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of silver or mother-of-pearl, and that footprint turned it into gray dust. But the moon never was made of mother-of-pearl, and it still shines as if it were so made.

Diana Athill

#15. The energy of life is force of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

Victor Hugo

#17. Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

Diana Athill

#18. I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

Curtis Joseph

#19. For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Marilyn Monroe

#20. It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.

Diana Athill

#21. I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream.

Zac Hanson