Charles Finch

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous…

— Charles Finch

I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I…

— Charles Finch

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd,…

— Charles Finch

“Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...' Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There…

— Charles Finch

The big challenge is a suit not worn with a tie. To me, it's a very odd look. David Cameron and many…

— Charles Finch

...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...

— Charles Finch

“In a fit of ambition I would start The Rainbow or Lord Jim, books I carried around school in the hopes that…

— Charles Finch

“I've had my wild times now and then — more than my share perhaps — and I don't think I'll give them…

— Charles Finch

“There are times in life when the weather and the landscape seem suddenly as if they’re for you alone.”

— Charles Finch

“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it.”

— Charles Finch

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for…

— Charles Finch

“And as I gazed up at the implacable black of the sky, my body warm from the bed but my face chilled,…

— Charles Finch

“There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...”

— Charles Finch

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

— Charles Finch

“The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the…

— Charles Finch

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book.…

— Charles Finch

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

— Charles Finch

“If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last…

— Charles Finch

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and…

— Charles Finch

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to…

— Charles Finch

“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it.…

— Charles Finch

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

— Charles Finch

“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult…

— Charles Finch

“I personally find that having a couple of projects going at once can be an aid to focus, refreshing my brain as…

— Charles Finch