In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise marke…

- Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

- Anita Brookner

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

- Anita Brookner

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

- Anita Brookner

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

- Anita Brookner

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

- Anita Brookner

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

- Anita Brookner

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

- Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

- Anita Brookner