Books Quote by Nicholas Royle

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to…

— Nicholas Royle

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

— Nicholas Royle

“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts,…

— Nicholas Royle

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes,…

— Nicholas Royle

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold…

— Nicholas Royle

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits…

— Nicholas Royle

The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much…

— Nicholas Royle

I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place…

— Nicholas Royle

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to…

— Nicholas Royle

Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your…

— Nicholas Royle

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

— Nicholas Royle