Quotes by : Diana Athill

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double....

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was....

If we are lucky enough, as I am, to be from time to time in quite close contact with young people, they....

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the....

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born....