“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
