Quotes by Edward St Aubyn

About Edward St Aubyn:

Edward St Aubyn is an English author and journalist. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker prize.
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The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

Edward St Aubyn

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Edward St Aubyn

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Edward St Aubyn

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of st...

Edward St Aubyn

If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can really be compared, but my wife thinks that "least...

Edward St. Aubyn

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.

Edward St. Aubyn

They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don't need to promise.

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The best way to contradict him is to let him talk

Edward St. Aubyn

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

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People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

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Author Bio

  • NameEdward St Aubyn
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornJanuary 14, 1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist
  • AwardsBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize