QUOTES ABOUT KNITTING
Literature “‘Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?’” her husband, Jack, asked her. “‘I’m bored with knitting. I’ve taken up arson.’”
“To watch her was curiously soothing. Every harassed businessman, he thought, should have a tank of tropical fish at one end of his office and a woman knitting at the other.”
– AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY
– RUTH RENDELL,
“As soon as I could use my hands she taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement.”
MURDER BEING ONCE DONE
“Sitting here with one’s knitting, one just sees the facts.”
– JANE AUSTEN,
– AGATHA CHRISTIE,
PERSUASION
THE BLOOD-STAINED PAVEMENT
“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.” – LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON,
“‘Oh, there you are, Albus,’ he said. ‘You’ve been a very long time. Upset stomach?’ ‘No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,’ said Dumbledore. ‘I do so love knitting patterns.’” – J.K. ROWLING,
WINTERGIRLS
HARRY POTTER AND THE
“The truth was, knitting was the only skill he had learned during the war that he enjoyed. There was something soothing about watching stitch after stitch pass across the needles, something meditative about the process.”
HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
– JESSICA DAY GEORGE,
“‘Can you row?’ the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knittingneedles as she spoke. ‘Yes, a little—but not on land— and not with needles—’ Alice was beginning to say.”
PRINCESS OF
– LEWIS CARROLL, THROUGH
THE MIDNIGHT BALL
THE LOOKING-GLASS
) “Knitting is the saving of life.” – VIRGINIA WOOLF 23
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