Susanna Clarke quote: "I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories."

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seeme...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE

He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such...
SUSANNA CLARKE

[A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear.
SUSANNA CLARKE

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed t...
SUSANNA CLARKE

The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, j...
SUSANNA CLARKE

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of mag...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other peop...
SUSANNA CLARKE

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
SUSANNA CLARKE

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war...
SUSANNA CLARKE

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except f...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
SUSANNA CLARKE

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.
SUSANNA CLARKE

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in...
SUSANNA CLARKE

It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite ano...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet wi...
SUSANNA CLARKE

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. V...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Captain Harcourt-Bruce was not only dashing, handsome, and brave, he was also rather romantic. The r...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose...
SUSANNA CLARKE

To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not troub...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I reached out my hand, England's rivers turned and flowed the other way...
I reached out my han...
SUSANNA CLARKE

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
SUSANNA CLARKE

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover in...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was fo...
SUSANNA HOFFS

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the ...
SUSANNA MOODIE

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
SUSANNA MOODIE

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret....
SUSANNA KAYSEN

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of l...
SUSANNA MOODIE

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different ...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the d...
SUSANNA MOODIE

You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance lik...
SUSANNA CLARK

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its...
SUSANNA MOORE

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everyth...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spi...
SUSANNA MOORE

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before ...
SUSANNA MOORE

Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you t...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Every time you feel lost, confused, think about trees, remember how they grow. Remember that a tree ...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you fo...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Ska jag säga dig ett fel vi ständigt begår? Att vi får för oss att våra liv är oföränderlig...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened spec...
SUSANNA MOORE

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian...
SUSANNA MOORE

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out oppor...
SUSANNA PHILLIPS

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day a...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, ...
SUSANNA HOFFS

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribbl...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself?...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you thin...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the cr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices...
SUSANNA MILLER

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be goo...
SUSANNA HOFFS

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well a...
SUSANNA MOORE

If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God,...
SUSANNA WESLEY

The exhibit will focus on Slovaks in church and school, in business, sports, entertainment, politics...
SUSANNA SWADE

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s...
SUSANNA MOORE

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar,...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limit...
SUSANNA THOMPSON

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not o...
SUSANNA ROWSON

Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE

We insist on these commissions finding and naming the officials responsible for the negligence that ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the d...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

We became convinced that there was misinformation on many issues.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Lying is a thriving vocation.
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE

We spoke about those who perished, those who had their lives cut short. We spoke about irresponsibil...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

It was a difficult conversation -- but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been throu...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We need to look him in the eyes and tell him that he is responsible for the deaths of our children.....
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

The government is supposed to guarantee our lives, take responsibility for our lives, and they haven...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We will ask questions and demand an answer.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We ask questions, and they don't answer.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We were outraged that no officials came ... when they carry responsibility for what happened. These ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

It is important in principle to know the truth so that something like this cannot happen again, and ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

The most painful questions are left unanswered.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Without words, thought couldn't express itself.
SUSANNA HALL

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You...
SUSANNA CLARK

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I&#...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive...
SUSANNA PHILLIPS

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand u...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of childre...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a ...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rul...
SUSANNA MOORE

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. I...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a l...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asp...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofita...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poet...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our pr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all s...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to pr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, desp...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pl...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dro...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, t...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' ha...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we m...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Sewaktu kanak-kanak aku percaya pada cinta, sama seperti aku percaya pada peri. Namun pada suatu har...
SUSANNA TAMARO

And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had....
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE

I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie dow...
SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth...
YVETTE CLARKE

I would put myself towards left of center.
YVETTE CLARKE

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended up...
YVETTE CLARKE

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system...
YVETTE CLARKE

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
YVETTE CLARKE

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
YVETTE CLARKE

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and e...
YVETTE CLARKE

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien...
YVETTE CLARKE

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial ine...
YVETTE CLARKE

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it...
YVETTE CLARKE

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I lear...
EMILIA CLARKE

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what...
EMILIA CLARKE

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.'...
EMILIA CLARKE

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
VINCE CLARKE

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key...
VINCE CLARKE

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm a lover of songs.
VINCE CLARKE

I started writing songs at age 15.
VINCE CLARKE

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyo...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,...
VINCE CLARKE

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
VINCE CLARKE

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im...
VINCE CLARKE

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's u...
NOEL CLARKE

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the...
ADAM CLARKE

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connectio...
ADAM CLARKE

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr...
ADAM CLARKE

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thin...
ADAM CLARKE

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t...
ADAM CLARKE

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is...
ADAM CLARKE

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value...
ADAM CLARKE

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not...
ADAM CLARKE

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - pa...
ADAM CLARKE

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infanc...
ADAM CLARKE

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts;...
ADAM CLARKE

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
ADAM CLARKE

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE

We believe that with inflation rising rapidly, and concerns among the hawks that it will be harder t...
ALAN CLARKE

Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand si...
ALAN CLARKE

The rise in output prices confirms signs... that firms are clawing back some pricing power.
ALAN CLARKE

As ever, the input price data is an energy story, and the fall in the sterling price of oil in the l...
ALAN CLARKE

Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.
ALAN CLARKE

The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
ALAN CLARKE

Speculation that we will see deep interest rates is overdone. In the context of the widely anticipat...
ALAN CLARKE

Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE

We're disappointed that our proposal didn't go through, but we're ecstatic in the fact that they did...
ALAN CLARKE

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground...
ADAM CLARKE

[With 5 fabrics to choose from, consumers have the ability to buy inexpensive and lightweight cover ...
ADAM CLARKE

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

Liberty begets license.
JOHN CLARKE

Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
JOHN CLARKE

Here is a fine field for talent.
JOHN CLARKE

Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.
JOHN CLARKE

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
JOHN CLARKE

They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
JOHN CLARKE

I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.

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I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.

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