There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the eti…

- Helen Dewitt

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

- Helen Dewitt

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the …

- Helen Dewitt

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

- Helen Dewitt

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

- Helen Dewitt

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

- Helen Dewitt

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet…

- Helen Dewitt

The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all…

- Helen Dewitt

The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because …

- Helen Dewitt