Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

- Piers Paul Read

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

- Piers Paul Read

Truth is always duller than fiction.

- Piers Paul Read

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be neither homili…

- Piers Paul Read