Philip Sington Quotes.

1. "To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness."
- Quote by Philip Sington

2. "One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want."
- Quote by Philip Sington

3. "I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness."
- Quote by Philip Sington

4. "But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them."
- Quote by Philip Sington

5. "Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them."
- Quote by Philip Sington

6. "Old Prague was a story-book city caked in grime: ancient, soot-blackened. History lived in every detail: in the deerstalker rooftops and the blue-sparking trams. He wandered the streets in disbelief, photographing everything, images from Kafka crowding into his head. With the turn of every corner it came back to him: the special frisson you get behind enemy lines."
- Philip Sington, Zoia's Gold

7. "He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see what it was Zoia had decided to destroy."
- Philip Sington, Zoia's Gold

8. "That was the dream of Montparnasse: to live for the moments of the greatest intensity, to find in them a truthful inspiration, and to hell with all the rest."
- Philip Sington, Zoia's Gold

9. "And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence."
- Philip Sington, The Einstein Girl

10. "The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost."
- Philip Sington, The Einstein Girl