Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

- 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

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

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