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 More Quotes by Charles Palliser More Quotes From Charles Palliser Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. Charles Palliser victorian poor people I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable. Charles Palliser narrators firsts thinking To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them. Charles Palliser betray betrayed virtue 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 doing i-can want writing 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 live thought war way 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 better work way thinking 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 quite rather related book
