"In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that."

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Source : Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

Susan Wiggs

#Book Quotes #Class Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.”

Source : William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”
“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”
“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”

Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
“The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer wings flutter to and fro in the dark, sprinkling dusty scaled in the circle of light. I'm struggling to resist, but I'm drawn. And then it's to bright, and I am flying too close to the sun, dazzled by the light, fried and melting from the heat, weary in my endeavers to stay airborn. I am so warm. The heat... It's stiffling, overpowering. It wakes me.”
“Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.”
“There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.”
“To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.”
“A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.”

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