Anita Brookner Quotes

"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
-Anita Brookner

"A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification."
-Anita Brookner

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
-Anita Brookner in Love quotes.

"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
-Anita Brookner

"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."
-Anita Brookner in Love quotes.

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
-Anita Brookner

"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
-Anita Brookner