Quotes from Susan Mitchell

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Perhaps it's true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

What was it he sensed beneath the charm of Adelaide's wide ordered streets, grand Georgian and Victorian buildings and symmetrical leafy green squares? It is variously known as the Garden City, the City of Churches, the Athens of the South, the jewel in the national crown of arts and sciences. A city, above all, cultured and civilised. But when Salman Rushdie watched night fall in Adelaide, it was not a soft velvet cloak of harmony that he saw descend on this city.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.