161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.