"The Booker 2011 is of no more interest……" — Edward St Aubyn
"The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant."
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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 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 see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing.…
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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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More Booker Quotes
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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
— John Banville
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick…
— Clarence Thomas
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He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under.
— Jim Cornette
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New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported…
— Bill Maher
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
— Nick Hornby
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published…
— Neil Cross
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If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see…
— Napoleon Hill
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Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that…
— Jon Pareles
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People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players…
— Jerry Wexler
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly…
— Anne Enright
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