Occupation: Biographer Birth: October 5, 1949
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned..
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember….
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon..
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble sta….
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much mo….
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is r….
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or c….
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward..
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud..
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience..
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown..
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us..
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the A….
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about..
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation..
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me..
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable l….
Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else..
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Haw….
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight..
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed..