"We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mazes Quotes

“I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.”
“Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.”
“As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.”
“The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!”
“There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.”
“Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
“When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.”
“The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and dietâ€”medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.”

Source : Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

You may also like:

Angela Carter
Novelist
Anne Tyler
Novelist
Colm Toibin
Novelist
Hanif Kureishi
Playwright
Howard Jacobson
Author
Margaret Atwood
Poet
Sarah Waters
Novelist
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist
Virginia Woolf
Writer