Edmund de Waal Quotes

The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.

Edmund de Waal

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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa
- People
- Life
- Good
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

Garth Nix
- Up
- Writing
- Age
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

Imelda Staunton
- Mother
- Death
- Space
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Tamsin Greig
- Up
- Women
- Growing
Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

Larry Wilmore
- Life
- Always
- Air
In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Age
- Earth
- Google