Royle Quotes & Sayings

I don't blame individuals, I blame myself. — Joe Royle

Real decisions are not something we can pick up without taking time to hunt for them. — Jason E. Royle

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe. — Nicholas Royle

Between 1866 and 1900, about 20,000 people were shot to death on the American frontier. In — Alan Royle

I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality. — Nicholas Royle

Belgium is a country with a split personality. — Nicholas Royle

You look pensive," he said quietly, holding his hand out from where he lay on the bed. He wore only his shirt and breeches. She went to him without protest. Why pretend when they really had so little time left together? He gathered her against him, her back to his front, and began plucking the pins from her coiffure. "Have I told you how much I admire your hair?" "It's just plain brown," she murmured. "Plain, lovely brown," he replied, raising a lock he'd freed to his face. "Are you smelling my hair?" she asked in amusement. "Yes." "Silly man," she said lightly. "Smitten man," he corrected, spreading her hair over her shoulders. "I've been watching you today." "In between escorting Miss Royle about the garden?" she asked, glancing over her shoulder at him. "Yes. I'd rather it'd been you, but that wouldn't've been prudent." He frowned down at the strands of her hair caught between his fingers. "Or, perhaps, safe. — Elizabeth Hoyt

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it. — Nicholas Royle

The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK. — Nicholas Royle

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past. — Nicholas Royle

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme. — Nicholas Royle

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form. — Nicholas Royle

I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else. — Nicholas Royle

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution. — Joe Royle

The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes the allegedly non-literary. It makes 'genre' blink. — Nicholas Royle

Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children. — Jason E. Royle

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself — Joe Royle

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton. — Joe Royle

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job. — Nicholas Royle

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between. — Joe Royle

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears. — Nicholas Royle

It wasn't one of my favorite boots, Marcus said, trying to cheer Miss Royle up. She looked as if someone had decapitated a puppy. — Julia Quinn

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft. — Nicholas Royle

The historian Major-General Sir David Stewart of Garth described them as an 'excellent, orderly regiment of well-behaved serviceable men, fit for any duty' and the novelist Sir Walter Scott used his journal to call them a 'regiment of Sutherland giants'. (One of their number was Samuel McDonald, a native of Lairg, who was seven feet four inches tall. Throughout the army he was known as 'Big Sam'.) — Trevor Royle

These days, the only people who inquire about me are historians, theologians, and rebellious kids with black fingernails. They focus more on what I did than who I was, but at least I come to mind. The others - the good people of the world - aren't curious. They take the traditional stories at face value. Even if they do possess a little curiosity, they never admit to the fact that they have questions: Who was Judas, really? How did he live? Why did he do it? Did he go to heaven - or straight to hell? — Jason E. Royle

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold. — Jason E. Royle

I don't make promises, I promise results. — Joe Royle

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal. — Joe Royle

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it. — Nicholas Royle

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt. — Joe Royle

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle

We did not pass the ball ... we couldn't have found our front two with radar. — Joe Royle

The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity. — Jason E. Royle

That's all he said?' Mrs. Royle demanded.
'He's not one for lengthy explanations,' Honoria said.
'Powerful men do not explain their actions,' Cecily announced dramatically. — Julia Quinn

Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back. — Nicholas Royle

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm. — Joe Royle

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it. — Julia Quinn