Henrietta Rose-Innes Quotes

• Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?

  Henrietta Rose-Innes

  Couple, Army, Thinking

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• I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

  Henrietta Rose-Innes

  Escribir, Pensar, Camino

  "'I had an inkling I might win'". Interview with Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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