Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.

I'm not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.

Sawyer: Alone in your tent? Um, no. You're in my tent

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

Mind my own business.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

I live very strictly by the mentality that what goes on the road, stays on the road. I keep it contained.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

If they come prying they can leave curious.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.