Austin Wright > Quotes

“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“You write because everything dies, to save what dies.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“When you doubt your ability to make a difference just remember you are alive for a reason.”
― Austin Wright

“To be heartbroken means to have a story”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“Money would compensate for lost dreams.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan: The riveting novel that inspired the new movie NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

“Her way with the chaos in her mind was to cultivate it through the articulations of others, by which she meant the reading of a lifetime with whose aid she created the interesting architecture and geography of herself.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“No problems are temporary until they are over. All problems are potentially permanent.”
― Austin Wright

“In the shock of his loss, Tony Hastings knew the importance of remaining civilized, with a bomb behind his eyeballs that would blow up if he was not careful. The way was to defuse it with delicate ritual operations. The importance of remembering who we was, Tony Hastings, professor, resident of, son of, father of. Reciting his name as he walked along the road in the dark. Organizing words, constituting thought. Shaving carefully around his mustache. Preparing for what would be given him to feel.”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan

“like traveling without knowing what country you’re going to”
― Austin Wright, Nocturnal Animals