M.K. Alexander Quotes

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

I am capable of being idle.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

There is no better designer then nature

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

Freedom is always wise.

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.