Angela Carter: Likeness

Angela Carter was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”

“I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

“His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl… an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.”

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).

“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”

Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.

“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”

Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998).