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He is here, with her, out of love. *He cannot imagine her getting through this trial without him at her side.”
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
She inhabits her characters as a woman does, not a man.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
She is not sure, as she listens to her own voice, whether she believes any longer in what she is saying.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
They lost their humanity, in our eyes, because of a certain willed ignorance on their part.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
“Norma and his mother have never liked each other. Probably his mother would have chosen not to like any woman he married.”
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
A French or English writer has thousands of years of written tradition behind him…We on the other hand are heirs to an oral tradition.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
“His mother is entitled to her convictions, he believes. If she wants to spend her declining years making propaganda against cruelty to animals, that is her right.”
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Because Costello is his mother’s maiden name, and because he has never seen any reason to broadcast his connection with her, it was not known at the time of the invitation that Elizabeth Costello, the Australian writer, had a family connection in the Appleton community. He would have preferred that state of affairs to continue.”
Elizabeth Costello (2003)