Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste...

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this,” said Cesare. “We ca...

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about...