Annalena Quotes & Sayings

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. — Richard K. Morgan

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate. — Annalena McAfee

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. — Annalena McAfee

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope

I see myself as a recovering journalist. — Annalena McAfee

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.' — Annalena McAfee

It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness. — Oscar Milosz

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. — Sax Rohmer

Used to sell 'em; now they just send 'em to prison like — Yaa Gyasi

MR. GEORGE MOTHER MARGARET — Lake Union Publishing

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions. — Jacques Barzun

Be someone's muse. — Tiya Miles

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them. — Elie Wiesel

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. — Annalena McAfee

When I finally did sit down in front of the machine - a familiar object, I had seen it daily when we were living together - I was reminded of how abrupt and unnatural death always is, at least as we experience it: always an interruption, always things that are left unfinished. This was manifested in Christopher's laptop, the desktop was covered in an intricate mosaic of files and document, there were at least a hundred different and sometimes oddly named folders - other people's work, internet. You name a folder without thinking, there are obvious names for some - accounts, articles - but others have the quality of junk drawers, you hardly remember their contents, you never imagine that one day someone else would be rummaging through them. — Katie Kitamura

There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference. — Dennis Miller

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics! — Annalena McAfee

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful. — Theo Van Gogh

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. — Pope John Paul II

From the very beginning
perplexing and wandering
from one ocean to another
an everlasting wander — Rixa White

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print. — Annalena McAfee

It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization I am that is prior to I am this or I am that. — Eckhart Tolle

Many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen