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Bub Bridger

31 quotes

“Oh it's terrifying, yeah: you come up to publication day and you suddenly realise 'right that's it, it's out in the world'. I remember when my publishers were telling me that it was starting to get on the bestseller list, and I was thinking 'Okay, well I've got a lot of family and a lot of friends, so okay that accounts for the first week'. And then I started realising that absolute strangers were gonna be reading it and...yeah it is quite terrifying actually.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...all those other 'How To' books were just about people that knew about this thing. This is different, because he's not a bird-watcher; this is his journey into that world . . . I'd like it hardbacked and leather, because it's a lovely book. It's one you'd want to treasure.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hers was the first voice like hers that I had discovered in literature before. I was good at English . . . I had never come across a voice like hers before. She was a black woman from the States, and she just blew my mind...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact that he can focus so deeply on a dinner, or a conversation at a beach, or you know, the impending non-consummation of a marriage, was really wonderful. It had all the depth. But I was quite captivated by the food, the English food, and how kind of unappealing it was. It was just so banal and humdrum.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A great deal of my fiction deals with extreme violence erupting in normal lives.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never decided that I would; I was just never able to stop.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way Doyle paints it is that the brotherhood, the Sinn Féin became the home for all these poor — you know, the woebegotten souls who were like trying to find their way.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not a world that I know but I came to know something about it though the book which was good, but I see...when I look at literature, when I look at books I look at the structure of them and ... I saw a fairy tale actually, when I think about it you know the traditional princess who becomes a maid who rises to become a queen and all these mad people inbetween on that journey...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a new scarlet coat and I look like a fire engine and I don't give a damn...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm always happy because your definition of 'young" is elastic...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He taught me everything. He just used to say, and I'll never forget that, he said 'it's not big words and adjectives — that's boring'. And I thought 'ah yes' . . . I learned from that. Simplicity is the art of writing.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's typically Jamesian because in a way its an unambiguous story: you know exactly what's going on, but it creates these ambiguities of feeling in you, because you want her protected, yet you can't like the father who's protecting her...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I wouldn't really be interested in writing a biography about someone who was obvious and straightforward. It's the enigma of a particular personality, I think, that drives your interest as a biographer. With someone like [John] Mulgan, someone like [Ralph] Hotere, there is a core there which is truly enigmatic, and which obviously fuels the work.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I have a problem with historic novels, I think that they tend to become history lessons and this book at times becomes a history lesson”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...a lot of really bad books, like just shit books, are written with really great plots that really move along, and why should the devil have all the good tunes you know? I like a good story in a book. It's not very fashionable to say that, because people associate good stories with the kind of books that are a cop-out: books that are like bad middlebrow popular fiction. But what's bad about being entertained?”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Part of that shorthand is the way that she works as well. I mean she's got this very reduced, very spare kind of style, which I loved. But more than anything I found it so compelling because of this fantastic unconsummated love, that really acts as a huge narrative pull.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing didn't really get a look in until we had children. I made the decision that I was going to stay home and bring the kids up myself, and oddly enough that gave me the opportunity and the time to write finally. I say time very loosely there...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some phrases you have to say out loud. it's like someone has poured warm milk into your skull, you know? It's just beautiful — I loved it.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...of course it wasn't called Lord of the Flies to begin with; it was called something awful like A Cry of Children. And it took 22 goes to get the manuscript actually on the desk at Faber and Faber for someone to accept it. All these stories come out . . . the professional book reader who looked at Lord of the Flies and said 'rubbish, dull, pointless'.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...legends are not only necessary to us, but however strong the legend, even if you try to demolish it, you can't. In fact you end up reinforcing it . . . We writers are mythmakers, whether we like it or not. The moment you write a book, you are very often adding to and sometimes creating a myth, and I've done both and I'm very happy with that.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...what I liked about it is . . . you never know if you're nuts, you know? And he had no idea, until they started finding the bodies...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was just extraordinary from the moment I started reading it. It doesn't have any chapters, and you just don't want it to stop. It's like that feeling of being a child again when you're reading a book and you honestly stay up all night reading it.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, the idea that people in the past can be present, is not a very strange idea when you've had a lot of experience with people that feel that way. Being with [knowing] elders like Eruera Stirling for 20 odd years . . . he looked at the ancestors as if they were just in the next room.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If someone was to tell me that I'd be raving on TV about a book about Diana, that's pink, [reading on] the bus, as a straight male, I'd tell you that 'you're wrong'. Let me just tell you that it's one of the most compelling books I've read!”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the title, I loved it. in the same way that the stories take on extra meaning after coming after the other stories. What I love about it is the way the title 'Opportunity' takes on so much meaning coming after the novel's provocation...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The place is the context of the poetry. It's not that I write about the place, but the poetry comes out of my life in the place. So in that way it is tremendously important To me, and I'm sure i wouldn't be writing what I'm writing if I weren't in Bluff.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...she's not a sentimental writer. There are times when she's as referential as a nun. At times she leaps into a comic, clownish dance. And times when she thunders like an Old Testament prophet.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mind of a child is a very different thing, and getting into that mind and just seeing the way the mind works...my younger daughter says 'you know if you stand on your head, you don't blink'. Now I don't know if that's true or not, but what a great line and I'm going to use that in a book that I'm writing at the moment...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can read it with a perfectly straight face but kind of chuckle inwardly; that's what I like.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Molly's from his series Dance to the Music of Time, in episode ten”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact her writing reminds me of your writing actually . . . it's insightful and it's layered. And it's a bit like intellectual quicksand”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source