Quotes by Charles Palliser - Page 1

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
Charles Palliser / Novelist
People
Poor
Victorian
Meant
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
Charles Palliser / Novelist
Firsts
Narrators
Thinking
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
Charles Palliser / Novelist
First Person
Novel
Unreliable
Prefer
Compromised
Narrator
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To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
Charles Palliser / Novelist
Betray
Betrayed
Virtue
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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 / Novelist
Leap
Unknown
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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 / Novelist
Hideous
Intrigued
Notion
Related
Self Contained
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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 / Novelist
Existence
Bath
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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 / Novelist
Length
Pointless
Time Me Done
Repeating
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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 / Novelist
Devoted
Reader
Victorian
Work Thinking Better
Chapter
Lull
Wrongs
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