Simon Beckett Quotes & Sayings

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's. — Simon Beckett

Pixels don't have the depth, the resonance you're looking for. No matter how hight the resolution, how true the colours, they're still only an impressionist approximation of their subject. Whereas film captures something of its essence, a transferral that goes beyond the chemical process. A real photograph is created by light, pure and simple: a paintbrush of photons that leaves its mark on the canvas of the film. There's a physical link between photographer and subject that calls for fine judgement, for skill. — Simon Beckett

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone. — Simon Beckett

When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet. — Simon Beckett