Charles Palliser

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be…

— Charles Palliser

“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.”

— Charles Palliser

“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.”

— Charles Palliser

Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who,…

— Charles Palliser

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

— Charles Palliser

“Such people are their own punishment.”

— Charles Palliser

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…

— Charles Palliser

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right…

— Charles Palliser

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

— Charles Palliser

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving…

— Charles Palliser

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time.…

— Charles Palliser