Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald

About Penelope Fitzgerald:

Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".
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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Penelope Fitzgerald

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Penelope Fitzgerald

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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

Penelope Fitzgerald

I would bear it for her if I could. People say that and hardly mean it. I, however, do mean it. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Penelope Fitzgerald

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Author Bio

  • NamePenelope Fitzgerald
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornDecember 17, 1916
  • DiedApril 28, 2000
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist
  • WorksThe Bookshop; Offshore