Quotes by : Deborah Levy

I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job. It's the only thing they work hard at. Oh good my depression....

My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke.....

He lifted his arm that had been resting on her shoulders and gazed at the words she had written on his....

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile.......

I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word,....

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness....

Gómez had suggested I steal a fish to achieve more courage and purpose. I regarded this task as an anthropological....

I have researched aboriginal culture, Mayan hieroglyphics and the corporate culture of a Japanese car....

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER,....

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape.....