Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Sylvia Brownrigg

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Sylvia Alderyn Brownrigg is an American author. She is the author of seven books of fiction. Brownrigg's books have been on The New York Times notable fiction lists and Los Angeles Times and Kirkus books of the year. Her children's book, Kepler's Dream, published under the name Juliet Bell, was turned into an independent film in 2017. She won a Lambda Literary Award in 2002 for Pages for You and published the sequel to that book in 2017. Brownrigg's reviews and criticism have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, New Statesman, Los Angeles Times, and The Believer.

American - Author | Born: December 16, 1964

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This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

Sylvia Brownrigg

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

Sylvia Brownrigg

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.

Sylvia Brownrigg

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Sylvia Brownrigg

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature

Sylvia Brownrigg

Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

Sylvia Brownrigg

The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room, I enjoyed traveling back and forth between the perspectives of the patients and that of the therapist - with the irony that with your therapist, you are at least supposed to be your most authentic self.

Sylvia Brownrigg

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

Sylvia Brownrigg