I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But….
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose..
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth..
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be..
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past..
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer..
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever..
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays..
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened an….
I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and kno….
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Storie….
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength..
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift..
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be..
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They h….
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always..
But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurv….
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in ….
The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attac….
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff..
The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole….