Top 33 Joanna Trollope Quotes
#1. I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
Joanna Trollope
#2. The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
Terry Pratchett
#3. You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
Joanna Trollope
#4. Every night she breaks your heart, and yet every morning you love her more. If that's not enough, nothing will be!
Sarvesh Jain
#5. Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#6. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
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#7. Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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#8. It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
Frank Zappa
#9. We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
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#10. You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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#11. Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
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#12. I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
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#14. If life is my way and nirvana is my destination, then which path should I take, religious or spiritual?
Debasish Mridha
#15. In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#16. the grasping mind cannot grasp its ultimate inability to grasp; it can only cultivate its tolerance of that inability.
Evan Thompson
#17. All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
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#18. I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
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#20. Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
Emily Dickinson
#21. I was always trying to do things to make school fun.
Julie Brown
#22. My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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#23. I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
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#24. The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
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#25. I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
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#26. I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
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#27. My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
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#28. I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.
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#30. You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
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#31. I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
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#32. What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
Marianne Williamson
#33. I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
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