"He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them."
- Charles Finch
"'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them."
"Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.''My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ...'In the Lords, I remember. It was..."
"There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child’s books, Jack Reacher al..."
"If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking ..."
"Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still w..."
"I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can."
"The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…"
"Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...'Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There are many lessons before you, some harder than this one... ..."
"There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris."