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Quotes by British Authors
"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
"I like stories where women save themselves."
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
"I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest."
"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
"One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."
"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
"Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date."
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."
"If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each."
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
"I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it."
"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
"Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom."
"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
"I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him."
"The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals."
"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
"Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip."
"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."
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