Pg 216 Quotes

#1. If a blackbird had your brains he'd fly backwards.

Frederick Manfred

#2. Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Andrew O'Hagan

#3. She finally understands what it means to fall into someone, that part of loving someone where you're totally consumed by them.

Rebecca Serle

#4. Eople don't know how to be happy; they wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of.

Alice Walsh

#5. You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.

Rob Sheffield

#6. My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Winona Ryder

#7. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Alan Rickman

#8. Submitting to history allows us to remember our society's past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.

K.P. Kollenborn

#9. The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting

C.S. Lewis