Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Palliser Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy the top 8 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Charles Palliser.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Pinterest Share on Linkedin

Famous Quotes By Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 442037

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 467399

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 493017

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 615375

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 718820

Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 812935

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 1489431

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to. — Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser Quotes 2129284

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that. — Charles Palliser