Sylvia Brownrigg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Book #Enough #Plans
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Drug #Nerves #Tools
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Want #Behind You #Wonder
It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Passion #Night #Afternoon
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Growing Up #Loss #Cliche
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#People #Feels #Absent
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Years #Year End #Mind
The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room, I enjoyed traveling back and forth between the perspectives of the patients and that of the therapist - with the irony that with your therapist, you are at least supposed to be your most authentic self.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Moving #Interesting #Perspective

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
No, you canâ€™t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, thatâ€™s enough.
Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

Sylvia Brownrigg famous quotes

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