6 Quotes & Sayings By Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy is a novelist, poet and playwright. Her books include the novels The Long Song (winner of the Whitbread Book Award and Guardian Fiction Prize), The Small Hand (winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction), and A Street in Winter (winner of the W.H. Smith Travel Book Award). She was awarded an OBE in 2000 and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2005 Read more

Levy is also the founder and director of the London Literature Festival and its annual literary awards. Levy went on to win her second Orange Prize for her novel The Rules of Inheritance, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2013.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river,...
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For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free. Andrea Levy
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The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire, ' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth. Andrea Levy
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There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact. Andrea Levy
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No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer. Andrea Levy
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Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live Andrea Levy