Facts about Janet Frame

Occup.Novelist
FromNew Zealand
BornAugust 28, 1924
DiedJanuary 29, 2004
Aged79 years

Summary

Janet Frame was a famous Novelist from New Zealand, who lived between August 28, 1924 and January 29, 2004. He/she became 79 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Janet.

10 Famous quotes by Janet Frame

Small: From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the follo
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth"
Small: Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day"
Small: Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance"
Small: They think Im going to be a schoolteacher but Im going to be a poet
"They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet"
Small: It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do w
"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep"
Small: Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is
"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination"
Small: Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle ones need to help by
"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"
Small: For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction
"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction"
Small: They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle
"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"
Small: I like to see life with its teeth out
"I like to see life with its teeth out"