Anna Kavan Quotes

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

Anna Kavan

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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Real

• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Film
  • Choice

• My Pleasure is my business

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Business

• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Dreams
  • Burn

• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Essence
  • Historical
  • Buddha

• Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friends
  • Looks
  • Friendship

• Some weird blue sh*t that someone gave me during our 1992 Australian tour. I didn't eat it.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Weird
  • Eat
  • During

• I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Life
  • Community
  • Kind

• It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Love
  • Family
  • Distance

• It's harder to maintain that internet kind of fame. It requires daily work, as opposed to a movie star who can make a movie once every two years and stay in the public eye. I respect it.

  

  Ariel Schulman
  • Internet
  • Fame
  • Daily Work

• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  

  Alan Blinder
  • Influence
  • Policy
  • Economist

• Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Sinister

• The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Magic
  • Dragons
  • Lightnings

• They met their own lowered targets. What is worrying is their reluctance to spell out where the market is going.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Worrying
  • Met
  • Targets

• I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Dragons
  • Met
  • Telephone