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. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. View quote
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. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk-just once-in prose like other people. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got' me,” he said. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake. View quote
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)