On Chesil Beach Quotes & Sayings

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. — Guy Browning

The more you know, the less you will fear. — Peyton Rose

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap. — Sena Jeter Naslund

What got you through?" I whispered. "Do you remember?"
He nodded but wouldn't look at me. When he didn't elaborate, I turned to face him. "What? Is it a secret? Don't I know all the Drake secrets by now?"
He shifted uncomfortably. "I guess"
"What then?"
"You"
I swallowed, stunned. "Me?"
"Yeah" He stood up and went to the door, where he paused for the barest second. "You got me through". — Alyxandra Harvey

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. — Ian McEwan

In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic will deny till the very last moment that anything magical is going on. They will invoke reason and evidence and eek out corroborations for the cause of their problems. But readers of these stories are rarely, if ever, on the side of these characters. They desperately want to believe that there is indeed something magical going on and they are primed to accept it whenever it occurs. Some readers especially enjoy a story with bad magic, as it assures them that magic is confined to fiction and will not leak into their real lives. This is the most perverse form of magical thinking and the one least likely to be recognized as such. — Thomas Ligotti

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. — Mary Jo Weaver

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. — Barbara Bush

On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have cared to know, that as she ran away from him, certain in her distress that she was about to lose him, she had never loved him more, or more hopelessly, and that the sound of his voice, would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. — Ian McEwan

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken — Ian McEwan

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years. — Erich Maria Remarque

Learning to fail well means learning to understand your mistakes, because unless you know what went wrong, you may do the wrong things to correct it. — Megan McArdle

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed. — George Carlin

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness. — Don McCullin

If they spoke, it was in whispers — Orhan Pamuk

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground. — Jaeda DeWalt

The worst deluded are the self-deluded. — Christian Nestell Bovee