"I see the author as the person who……" — 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 friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him."
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Edward St Aubyn
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19 Quotes by Edward St Aubyn
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Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the…
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It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one…
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Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two…
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Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
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I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I…
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It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
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The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to…
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The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of…
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The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of…
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I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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