Pat Barker Quotes
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
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I like a real beach. A crowded one, you know? People, towels, umbrellas. I hate those little private strips of sand you see up in Malibu.
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The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
