World Heavyweight Quotes by Edward St Aubyn

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

— Edward St Aubyn

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

— Edward St Aubyn

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

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

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

— Edward St Aubyn

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

— Edward St Aubyn

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

— Edward St Aubyn

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

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

— Edward St Aubyn

“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about”

— Edward St Aubyn

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

Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the…

— Edward St Aubyn

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

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily…

— Edward St Aubyn