Quotes by : Amanda Craig

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless....

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.....

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected....

It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for....

A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought....

They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq....

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces....

Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies....

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s....

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.