Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

William Nicholson

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

William Nicholson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

William Nicholson

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

William Nicholson

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

William Nicholson