Zitat des Tages von Edward St Aubyn:
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
