Anthony Powell Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
December 21, 1905 – March, 28, 2000.

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (/ˈpoʊəl/ POH-əl; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.

Anthony Powell
- Passion
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell
- Growing

Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell
- Children
- Parents
- Promise
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.

Anthony Powell
- Life
- Deep
People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.

Anthony Powell
- People
- True
- Decision
There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell
Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell