Janet Frame Quotes

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All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Janet Frame

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

Janet Frame

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

Janet Frame

We're not to forget to get off at Beach Street. At least I think Dad said Beach Street.

Janet Frame

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

Janet Frame

When I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Born: August 28, 1924

Died: January 29, 2004 (aged 79)

Bio: Nene Janet Paterson Clutha was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography.

Known for:

Owls do Cry (1957)
Faces in the Water (1961)
To the Is-Land (1982)
Towards Another Summer
An autobiography (1989)

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