I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that… — Simon Mawer Age Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was… — Simon Mawer Busy Copy Share Image
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice. — Simon Mawer Appearance Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Childhood Copy Share Image
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a… — Simon Mawer Okay Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,… — Simon Mawer Combination Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Academic Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Books Copy Share Image
“I'm fond of her." Oh yeah? Fond are you? I've heard of fond. I expect old erection here" - she pointed to… — Simon Mawer Marriage Copy Share Image
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. — Simon Mawer Bank Copy Share Image
“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.” — Simon Mawer Mathematics Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn’t look. It wasn’t the… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. — Simon Mawer About Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and… — Simon Mawer Love Copy Share Image
“She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and… — Simon Mawer Emotion Copy Share Image
“I don't believe you.' 'That doesn't make any difference. Whether you believe it or not doesn't change the facts. It doesn't depend… — Simon Mawer Faith Copy Share Image
“Regulations. The city, the country, probably the whole world (having travelled little, Tomáš is unsure about the matter) is pinned down by… — Simon Mawer Time Copy Share Image
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. — Simon Mawer Denial Copy Share Image
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes! — Simon Mawer Alone Copy Share Image
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance. — Simon Mawer Barricades Copy Share Image
“in Czech we have an expression, propadnout lásce, to fall in love. You can’t do that in German, can you? In German… — Simon Mawer Fall in love Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're… — Simon Mawer About Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Answers Copy Share Image
