Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: ‘Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.’”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“I think the adjective ‘post-modernist’ really means ‘mannerist.’ Books about books is fun but frivolous.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)