top of page
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner

"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

Standard 
 Customized
"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

Exlpore more Attention quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I think I'm a focus for international attention."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

Explore more quotes by Anita Brookner

Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
Quote_1.png
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 market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
Quote_1.png
Anita Brookner
"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
bottom of page