Lawrence > Lawrence's Quotes

“Books, music, painting are not life, can never be as full, rich, complex, surprising or beautiful, but the best of them can catch an echo of that, can turn you back to look out the window, go out the door aware that you’ve been enriched, that you have been in the company of something alive that has caused you to realise once again how astonishing life is, and you leave the book, gallery or concert hall with that illumination, which feels I’m going to say holy, by which I mean human raptness. So”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Neighbours, as Jesus knew, can be a not insignificant challenge to anyone’s Christianity.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“After a liquid lunch in Craven’s, he had found the margins of the roads badly drawn.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes