Dorothy Dunnett quotes

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. (Dorothy Dunnett)

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Dorothy Dunnett

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

Dorothy Dunnett

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Dorothy Dunnett

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

Dorothy Dunnett

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

Dorothy Dunnett

Today,' said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

Dorothy Dunnett

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk-just once-in prose like other people.

Dorothy Dunnett

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got' me,” he said.

Dorothy Dunnett

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

Dorothy Dunnett

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. (Dorothy Dunnett)

Dorothy Dunnett

Occupation: Scottish Novelist
Born: August 25, 1923
Died: November 9, 2001
Quotes count: 11

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