Quotes About Lawrence Durrell

A novel should be an act of divination by entrails, not a careful record of a game of pat-ball on some vicarage lawn!

This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.

A million muffin-eating moralists were waiting, not for us, Brother Ass, but for the plucky and tedious Trollope!

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.