She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables. - Anthony Powell
Perhaps these are inward irritations always produced by love: the acutely sensitive nerves of intimacy: the haunting fear that all may not go well. - Anthony Powell
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. - Anthony Powell
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. - Anthony Powell