For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
