Nicholas Mosley Quotes

Nicholas Mosley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 25, 1923

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Nicholas Mosley

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Nicholas Mosley

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

Nicholas Mosley

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Nicholas Mosley

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

Nicholas Mosley

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Nicholas Mosley

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

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To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Nicholas Mosley