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Top 15 Linda Grant Quotes (2024 Update)

Linda Grant Quote: “The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.”

1. “The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.”

2. “Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me – ‘Read me, please!’”

3. “I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me – ‘Read me, please!’”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “It’s not the punch you expect that knocks you down.”

4. “It’s not the punch you expect that knocks you down.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Reading wasn’t my religion – it was my oxygen.”

5. “Reading wasn’t my religion – it was my oxygen.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.”

6. “There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father’s arms Where is the equivalence.”

7. “What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father’s arms Where is the equivalence.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.”

8. “Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy’s eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head.”

9. “And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy’s eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “I’m a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there’s loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they’re all major enterprises.”

10. “I’m a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there’s loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they’re all major enterprises.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.”

11. “Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “But who can really remember pain? It’s impossible, you don’t remember it, you only fear it returning. These thoughts are like stitches – you see together a memory with them and the flesh heals over into a scar. The scar is the memory.”

12. “But who can really remember pain? It’s impossible, you don’t remember it, you only fear it returning. These thoughts are like stitches – you see together a memory with them and the flesh heals over into a scar. The scar is the memory.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman’s body?”

13. “A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman’s body?”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.”

14. “Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “You think your parents are there just to love and irritate you. You see them as satellites spinning round your sun and you try to run away across the universe while they chase you.”

15. “You think your parents are there just to love and irritate you. You see them as satellites spinning round your sun and you try to run away across the universe while they chase you.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “Without a physical presence on the shelves, the Kindle books seemed slightly insubstantial. There was no equivalent of the satisfying cracked spine. There was nothing to bequeath to the next generation, nothing to sell on to live a new life in someone else’s library. But at least the torrent of books that kept arriving had slowed down and there was space to walk up the stairs. I was being freed from the burden of all those bloody books.”

16. “Without a physical presence on the shelves, the Kindle books seemed slightly insubstantial. There was no equivalent of the satisfying cracked spine. There was nothing to bequeath to the next generation, nothing to sell on to live a new life in someone else’s library. But at least the torrent of books that kept arriving had slowed down and there was space to walk up the stairs. I was being freed from the burden of all those bloody books.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.”

17. “When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “At the core of misogyny is this paradigm: that men judge women by how they look, their physical beauty and its adornment by dress, while characterising the need to look beautiful as concrete evidence of female triviality.”

18. “At the core of misogyny is this paradigm: that men judge women by how they look, their physical beauty and its adornment by dress, while characterising the need to look beautiful as concrete evidence of female triviality.”

— Linda Grant

Linda Grant Quote: “If you want to understand the life of a foreign city, how people go about their day-to-day business, what they buy and what they look like, go to the supermarket. I rarely have the need to purchase a box of breakfast cereal or a loaf of bread while abroad, but watching others do it tells me more about a place than being led around in a crocodile behind a tour guide’s umbrella.”

19. “If you want to understand the life of a foreign city, how people go about their day-to-day business, what they buy and what they look like, go to the supermarket. I rarely have the need to purchase a box of breakfast cereal or a loaf of bread while abroad, but watching others do it tells me more about a place than being led around in a crocodile behind a tour guide’s umbrella.”

— Linda Grant

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