Quotes by Ronald Frame

We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.

That’s what friends are for,” Sheba

Some things belong to the past.

Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.

I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.

Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?

Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.

Lets say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something thats simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I dont want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if Id done well enough to earn the honour in last weeks test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.