The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about” — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
