Angela Carter Quotes

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 7, 1940 - February 16, 1992

Topics

HistoryExperienceYourselfWorld

I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

Joanna Lumley

GreatFindMirrorsLipstickAntidote

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

John Matuszak

SchoolHigh SchoolAthleteWhyHigh

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

Matthew Heineman

FixGoingBombs

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

LifeLearningOpportunityTimeThink

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Anika Noni Rose

DreamsVoicePrincessNeverAlways

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Jeanette Winterson

HatePurposeYouNothingLesbian

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

TruthOpinionsTrueNeverSense

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

Tom Irwin

TimeGardeningCreativePaintingYou

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

Robert Barnes

TransformationMagicMysteryThings

I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.

Rod Lurie

PeopleEnjoyWantShowChiefWould

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

Juan Pablo Galavis

TravelWeatherMiamiLikeMuchLot

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

Joshua Cohen

WorldYouRulesWantWriteBreak

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