Ronald Frame Quotes

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

~ Ronald Frame

That’s what friends are for,” Sheba

~ Ronald Frame

Some things belong to the past.

~ Ronald Frame

Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.

~ Ronald Frame

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

~ Ronald Frame

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

~ Ronald Frame

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.

~ Ronald Frame

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's 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 don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

~ Ronald Frame

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 I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.

~ Ronald Frame