Anita Brookner was born in London on July 16th 1928; the only child of Newson Bruckner, a Polish immigrant to Britain, and Maude Schiska she was a British award-winning novelist and art historian. She was the first woman to hold the position of Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
“My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.”
“Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.”
“I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”
“It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky.”
“Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.”
“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
Her death is a sad loss indeed to the world of literature but as long as we read her books she will forever remain immortal to us, her readers.
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