"I am fat, lazy and kind."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

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“I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.”

Source : Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.
“For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.”
“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.”
“The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race”
“If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.”
“Criticize the act, not the person.”
“Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”
“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?”

Source : "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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