Quotes by : Janet Frame

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's....

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small....

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out....

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans,....

I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake,....

...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited....

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it....

I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard....

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which....