His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. Angela Carter More Quotes by Angela Carter More Quotes From Angela Carter I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. Angela Carter grandparentgrandmothertogether Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? Angela Carter monstersforestslooks F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment. Angela Carter offendingdubiousreading It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list. Angela Carter growingawardspurpose Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. Angela Carter nostalgiavices The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been. Angela Carter timedeathfiction I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. Angela Carter funmeanbook Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Angela Carter foolseverybodyillusionworld I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. Angela Carter mesittinggodnight Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. Angela Carter needorganizationpastart Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. Angela Carter himselfpersonambitionappearance It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. Angela Carter thanbetterneverpassion
