- Destructive
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020