English - Writer | October 27, 1950 -
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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I had lost faith in biography.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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