76 Quotes by Janet Frame

I was baffled by my fuzzy hair and the attention it drew, and the urgency with which people advised that I have it ‘straightened’, as if it posed a threat.

Life is hell, but there are prizes.

They think I’m going to be a schoolteacher but I’m going to be a poet.

I went towards the stairs, just as the band was playing ‘Now is the Hour’, and the music reached down like a long spoon inside me and stirred, and stirred.