Chatwin Books Quotes & Sayings

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn't be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important. — Annie Dillard

When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt's house and slip through into Fillory ... it's like he's opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better. — Lev Grossman

The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. — L.M. Montgomery

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires? — Bruce Chatwin

Good morning, dear lady," he said. "By Jove! what a picture of health and freshness you are!"

Miss Mapp cast one glance at her basket to see that the paper quite concealed that article of clothing which the perfidious laundry had found. (Probably the laundry knew where it was all the time, and--in a figurative sense, of course--was "trying it on".) — E.F. Benson

No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London. — Agatha Christie

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. — Muriel Barbery

Nothing is forbidden in the world where you reign,' his eyes said. 'There's only longing for those who are not here, for those few who are worthy of you. — Vadim Babenko

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day. — Maureen Dowd

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking. — Charles S. Price

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two. — John F. Kerry

I have fought for independence here, and freedom, too. More and more I find they're not at all the same thing. — Paula McLain

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up. — Bruce Chatwin