Nicholas Mosley

“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we…

— Nicholas Mosley

“Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.”

— Nicholas Mosley

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley

“The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.”

— Nicholas Mosley

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing…

— Nicholas Mosley

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till…

— Nicholas Mosley

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

— Nicholas Mosley

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status…

— Nicholas Mosley

“What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?”

— Nicholas Mosley

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much…

— Nicholas Mosley

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be…

— Nicholas Mosley

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what…

— Nicholas Mosley

“But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed…

— Nicholas Mosley

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

— Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting…

— Nicholas Mosley

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

— Nicholas Mosley